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| Release Date | December 31, 1969 |
| Status | Released |
| Language | EN |
| IMDb ID | tt0130465 |
Artificial Light repeats variations on a single filmic utterance twenty times. The same phrase is a series of portrait shots of a group of young New York artists talking, drinking wine, laughing, smoking, informally. The individual portrait-shots follow each other with almost academic smoothness in lap-dissolves ending in two shots of the entire group followed by a dolly shot into a picture of the moon... There is a chasm between the phrase and its formal inflections. That chasm is intellectual as well as formal. Frampton loves an outrageous hypothesis; his films, all of them, take the shape of logical formulae. -- P. Adams Sitney, Film Culture Reader
Status: Released
Language: EN
| Release Date | December 31, 1969 |
| Status | Released |
| Language | EN |
| IMDb ID | tt0130465 |