Chinese Firedrill
Pale Shibboleth: Will Hindle’s “Chinese Firedrill”
By Chuck Stephens | 01/18/2024 | Columns, CS97, Exploded View, From Cinema Scope Magazine
The greatest film ever made that you’ve in all likelihood never seen, Will Hindle’s 1968 short masterwork Chinese Firedrill is a rarely screened, never-digitized chamber piece/psychodrama about memory, consciousness, involution, set design, comic/cosmic performance, and the inscrutable experiments and sublime experiences of photo-chemical cinema as it was just a little over half a century ago.
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