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Machete Gillette... Mama

Name: Machete Gillette... Mama
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1989-01-01
Duration: 42 min
Rating: 6

★ 6,0 /10 (1 Votes)

1989 EN 42 min

Overview

"With characteristic wit and rigor, experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim here applies his impressionistic editing style to footage collected during his travels in the Dominican Republic. Gottheim’s formal emphasis on repetition and fissures between sound and image resonates here as a mode of sociological reflection (with the fragmentary montage mirroring elements of ritual while also destabilizing the ethnographic gaze). A largely overlooked antecedent to the contemporary blending of avant-garde and ethnographic filmmaking, MACHETTE GILLETTE… MAMA still poses a potent challenge to documentary convention." - Max Goldberg

Release date

01/01/1989

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