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Movie poster: Death in the Forenoon (1966)
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Death in the Forenoon

1966 · 2 min Animation
5.1 / 10 · TMDB

Footage of a bullfight, shot by Hill in 1934, hand-painted by the artist three decades later.

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Year 1966
Country United States of America
Genre Animation
Director Jerome Hill
Runtime 2 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.1/10 (14 votes)

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The film constructs a dialogue between the documentary foundation and the transformative act of painting. It relies on the physicality of hand-applied color to explore the decay and reinterpretation of memory, turning violent spectacle into a melancholic ballet of pigments.

What lingers after viewing is not the fight itself, but the haunting beauty of its erosion—a testament to art's power to both preserve and obliterate. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Jerome Hill

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Watch projected large, in silence, to fully absorb its painterly hypnosis.

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