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Director
Alan Schneider
Credits
Writer: Samuel Beckett
Principal Cast
Buster Keaton
Category
ShortExperimentalLiterature
In 1969 Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in recognition of his development of a circular form of reasoning that implies entrapment in circumstances of one’s own design. Film, directed by Alan Schneider in New York and written by Beckett, emanates directly from such reasoning, in which the main character, Buster Keaton, carefully blots out all external reality according to a prevailing philosophical principle: George Berkeley’s “Esse est percipi” (to be is to be perceived).
Notes by Experimental Film Club.
20 minutes , USA, 1965 , B&W
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: COLD COMFORT (PROGRAMME 1) 12.40
BLUE MOON 15.40
BUGONIA 13.20 (Digital)
HORSESHOE 13.00
IFI YOUTH PANEL: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN 18.00
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 18.10
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 13.00
PILLION 18.00
SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE) 15.50
THE SHINING (45th ANNIVERSARY) 15.00
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