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Background( 1973)

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Background is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The original version was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

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      Pat Connell

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Feb 02 2025
    Given I saw his "Pianissimo" (1963) a while back I should have expected something abstract from Carmen D'Avino. Well I got it, and I will readily acknowledge that I couldn't really make head nor tail to this amalgam of tinted images. It has a beginning and an end, but thereafter it's impossible to discern just what, if any, message he is trying to convey with this twenty minutes of random animation intercut with (some wartime) photographs all helped along by a score that would not have sounded out of place at a funfare. "Without purity, you're a dead duck" he informs us, but I struggled to find...

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    English

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