Movies Similar to Shirking; Shrieking Specter

Frozen Image(1965)

A poetic essay. An Algerian soldier wanders through Algiers and the countryside, whilst a voiceover of the soldier's mother laments his death.

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Aridity Enclosure 1(2017)

Locked away but not away; somewhere nearby but unreachable, a periphery so notfaroff it's always in sight.

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This Cacophony Runs Over Me(2017)

This cacophony runs over me, over everything I see, everything I want to see: it's me.

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Hiding Under a Copy of the Strokes' Single 'Under Cover of Darkness'(2017)

Hiding inside&out, writhing about, taken out&in.

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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story(1987)

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

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Every Ambulation a Betrayal(2017)

Return to 'burn' only to find out you're already in that urn.

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We Could All Do With a Little Back & Forth As Far As It Concerns the To & Fro of Everywhere Each of Us Go(2017)

(Some of us) Still run down the same [mental&emotional] streets we revered/reproached/replaced as children.

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Moonwalker(1988)

This fantastical movie inspired by the music of Michael Jackson features imaginative interpretations of hit tracks from the iconic 1987 album “Bad”.

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A Thought of Ecstasy(2018)

August 2019. Frank recognizes his own story of twenty years ago in a recently published book. He remembers Marie, with whom he had a relationship before she moved to the United States and disappeared from his life. Frank sets out in search of her and finds himself in a USA petrified by a heat wave and lost in suspicion and political paranoia. He heads into the desert in pursuit of Marie.

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60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero(2011)

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.

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