Gnir Rednow
A film composed of the out-takes from Brakhage’s The Wonder Ring (1955), which Cornell had commissioned. There has been a long-standing misconception that the film "Gnir Rednow" is simply "The Wonder Ring" mirrored or projected in reverse. However, Mark Toscano of the Academy Film Archive has definitively established that the original roll of each one of these two films is "unmistakably, completely comprised of camera original Kodachrome," and that no two shots are precisely the same from one film to the other.
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📋 Film Details
| Year | 1955 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Director | Joseph Cornell |
| Runtime | 6 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 5.7/10 (10 votes) |
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The film constructs an archaeology of the cinematic process, relying on the value of the incidental and the discarded. It explores the very material of film stock, transforming technical outtakes into a basis for meditative observation.
What lingers after viewing is a heightened awareness of the texture and color of light as physical phenomena, divorced from narrative expectation. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Joseph Cornell
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In complete darkness on a large screen, to appreciate the nuances of the film grain.
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