Nineteen
A collage-letter to friends I lost, or who drifted away. A film about the end of adolescence in the 1990s, set between Athens and Brussels. Fragments and snippets of memory, stitched together in the way memory actually works: through the flow of emotions. Letters inspired by those my friends sent me in Brussels, Super 8 footage I shot myself, photographs, Video 8 material, and newly filmed standalone scenes. The final medium is 16mm film.
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Very Nice, Very NiceFilm, 1961Rated 6.0 on TMDB
Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. It is made of dozens of pictures that seem familiar, with fragments of speech heard in passing and, between times, a voice saying, "Very nice, very nice." The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
