Absolute Street

Absolute Street

4 mins | Documentary | Aug. 1, 2020

Samuel Beckett made a single work for projected cinema. The film ‘Film’ was shot in New York in the summer of 1964. Beckett needed one street scene for the opening of the film, and he wanted that street image to be shot in a street that he described as ”absolute street”.

Absolute Street

4 mins | Documentary | Aug. 1, 2020

Absolute Street
Samuel Beckett made a single work for projected cinema. The film ‘Film’ was shot in New York in the summer of 1964. Beckett needed one street scene for the opening of the film, and he wanted that street image to be shot in a street that he described as ”absolute street”.
Producers Atalante Oy
Original title Absolute Street
Directors Jan Ijäs
Writers Jan Ijäs

Cast

Rebecca Clamp

as Narration