Machete Gillette... Mama

Machete Gillette... Mama (1989)

Not Rated Documentary, Short • 0h 42m
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With characteristic wit and rigor, experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim here applies his impressionistic editing style to footage collected during his travels in the Dominican Republic. Gottheim's formal emphasis on repetition and fissures between sound and image resonates here as a mode of sociological reflection (with the fragmentary montage mirroring elements of ritual while also destabilizing the ethnographic gaze). A largely overlooked antecedent to the contemporary blending of avant-garde and ethnographic filmmaking, MACHETTE GILLETTE... MAMA still poses a potent challenge to documentary convention. - Max Goldberg

Larry Gottheim
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Country: United States, Dominican Republic
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DVD Release Date: 17 Apr 2020
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6.3

IMDb (6 votes)
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