Arthur Lipsett's Free Fall is a couple a years and a couple of shorts after his groundbreaking Very Nice, Very Nice where it distances itself in terms of content and to a greater degree control. Lipsett seems to have gone into a free fall after the feat of VN,VN and working here with some of the same themes and devices it is a sloppy and abrasive work that fails to approach "Nice." Free Fall misses the savage editing of one second stills and precise matching of cryptic sound to image of the former. Lengthier with greater dependence on moving footage it lags rather than jolt like its fine tuned predecessor. A disappointing follow-up.
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Too random for me
Horst_In_Translation28 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"Free Fall" is a black-and-white film from 1964, so this one is already over 50 years old. It runs for 9 minutes only and was written and directed by Arthur Lipsett, who got help once again from the National Film Board of Canada. Compared to Lipsett's Oscar-nominated work, this one here is rather about everyday life and impressions than about aspects that moved the world half a century ago. But the style is very similar. It's easy to see these two come from the same filmmaker. This one here is once again very fast, all-over-the-place and extremely random. I myself did not like it that much, but that's just subjective opinion. People who adore experimental films more than I do may have a better time watching this one. I was glad nonetheless it was over fairly quickly. Thumbs-down from me. guess Lipsett just isn't my thing in general.
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