Take Five

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Take Five

1972

0h 4m

6.8(4 votes)

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Overview

Early experimental film from Zbigniew Rybczynski that broke new ground in the use of pixelation, optical printing, animation and other compositional film devices. Beautiful jazz score and color usage.

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