The Girl Chewing Gum
At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems to instruct the objects.
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📋 Film Details
| Year | 1976 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | John Smith |
| Runtime | 12 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 6.6/10 (37 votes) |
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🎬 MovieFinder's Take
John Smith constructs his film on a radical juxtaposition of the seen and the heard. He relies on a single static shot of an ordinary street, but overlays it with an authoritarian voice-over that attempts to impose order on chaos, prescribing a reason and meaning to every movement within the frame.
What lingers after viewing is a sense of the fine line between observation and control, between documentary recording and the direction of life itself. The film makes one question the very nature of the visible. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: John Smith
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Watch in quiet contemplation, as an experimental film-essay. Best viewed alone.
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