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Drama, UR, 01-Jan-1976
For this remarkable experimental film, provocative avant-garde artist Stephen Dwoskin gathered a group of strangers and filmed them exploring their sexual fantasies over a period of five days; the camera lingering on looks, movements, costumes and improvisations. A subversive investigation of social relations, or possibly a pretentious proto-Big Brother, the film, once seen, is never forgotten.
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Went the Day Well?
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The Gold Diggers
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The Great White Silence
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