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Excavation (S)

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Original title: Excavation
Year: 1974
Running time: 5 min.
Country: United States
Director: James Cagle
Screenwriter: James Cagle
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: James Cagle
Producer: Distributor: The Filmmakers Cooperative
Genre: Documentary | Short Film. Experimental Cinema
Synopsis: Excavation demonstrates James Cagle’s engagement with structural filmmaking. More specifically it’s an example of a “flicker film”. Composed of both still photographs and live footage, Excavation employs extremely short-shot juxtapositions to create disorienting collisions of imagery. For Cagle, this film symbolized a personal exploration of, in his words, “techniques and ideas that have accumulated over the years, but had been without expression for one reason or another.” A dynamic visualization of his thoughts, it “excavates” both the private workings of his inner world, and also the material components of filmmaking.

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Excavation (S)

1974

James Cagle