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Tight 4-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
MoodPlayr · trivia#01
Permian Strata
1969 0h 4m EN
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Synopsis
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A film he made in 1969 that rarely gets discussed, and is only barely mentioned even in the monograph 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II. This excellent tome contains close analysis by Bruce Jenkins of film-school staples like A Movie and Looking For Mushrooms as well as of later works like Valse Triste and Take the 5:10 to Dreamland. The 1969 film is called Permian Strata, a title which works in conjunction with the images and the song that makes up the film's soundtrack to form a colossal pun. So often experimental film gets pigeonholed as overly serious, boring, stuffy, or requiring an expertise in filmmaking processes to fully appreciate.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Bruce Conner
- Countries
- United States of America
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The take
Bruce Conner directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 4-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 257 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4IMDB entry: tt0130939 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 5Only 3 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 4 min · 0h 4m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
Also by
Bruce Conner
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1969-06-05
