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Central Bazaar
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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CENTRAL BAZAAR
A fiIm by Stephen Dwoskin
Director, artist and advocate of independent film, Stephen Dwoskin, gathered a group of strangers together for a period of five weeks and fiImed them as they explored their fantasies within a single room. The extraordinary resuIts are documented in this visually lush experimental fiIm.
lnspired by the post-hippy encounter groups that developed on America's West Coast, this poetic precursor to TV's Big Brother explores the reIationship between intimacy and performance, often to extreme effect. Men and women don make-up, stockings and ceremoniaI gowns while emotionaI and physicaI interactions form and rupture, pushing some participants to their very Iimits.
Through his involving camerawork and dynamic use of sound - including a compelling drone score by celebrated composer Gavin-Bryars - Dwoskin creates a truly unique fiIm that drives us to examine our own sense of 'fantasy' and to question our relationships to both other peopIe and the fiIm itseIf.
Special features
New High - Definition transfer created from newly restored film eIements Laboured Party (1974, 20 mins), Dwoskin's on-set companion piece to CentraI Bazaar in which an unsuspecting Labour Party canvasser caIls at the house and faIls under the provocative and pIayful infIuence of the feature fiIm's participants FuIIy illustrated booklet with contributions from Jonas Mekas, PauI WiIIemen and WilIiam Fowler
UK | 1975 | colour | French language | 142 minutes | DVD-9 | OriginaI aspect ratio 1.33:1 | DoIby DigitaI mono audio (320kbps) | Region 2 DVD |
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