Intervals

1973
5.8| 0h7m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 1973 Released
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Country: United Kingdom
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A short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static camera positioned in front of the walls; experimental editing techniques, no dialogue-just background music, and quick edits of blackness throughout.

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Documentary

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Peter Greenaway

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Intervals Audience Reviews

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Listonixio Fresh and Exciting
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Intervals" is a 6.5-minute short film from 1969, so a couple more years and it has its 50th anniversary. But is this really a reason to celebrate? It is a British production and the writer and director is Peter Greenaway. He was still in his 20s when he made this film and it's an early production from him, but not one of his earliest. It's also in black-and-white which was not too uncommon for the 1960s. Other than that, my review title summarizes it basically. It is nothing but people walking in front of walls. The narrator that we occasionally hear is Italian for whatever reason. I personally did not see any artistic value in here and I believe that honestly, this is a film that almost everybody with a camera can re-enact or make. I am also not sure how much was staged in here or if it is a 100% documentary film. Anyway, I did not enjoy the watch at all as you have probably understood by now. Not recommended.
Afracious A short examination of structure and sound, this film shot in black and white in the location of Venice presents three sections of similar film to us over its duration of six minutes. In the first section a metronome is used to count events in the film. People walk across the frame, sometimes in the foreground, which is accompanied precisely by a different sound. In the second section a male Italian voice can be heard counting through the alphabet. Music by Vivaldi is heard in the third. Shot 26 December 1968 - 8 January 1969. Dubbed 30 October 1973.
smoothw The same film footage is played four or five times with a different audio background each time. I liked it personally because it was a good example of how we react to film through both audio and visual cues, and as an example of how rythms can be imposed on anything. There's is also some amusing bits in there too. Not essential greenaway, but worth seeing if you can find it.
aaastruc As if "L'Année dernière à Marienbad" has been made with holiday film rushes. Shot in Venezia by Greenaway with a bolex, never showing water, structured to give the feeling that viewer goes back and forth through different layers of time, this astonishing short film already has the main characteristic of early Greenaway's works : ironic clash between fiction and documentary.