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Coming Apart

Screening on Film
Directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg.
With Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Viveca Lindfors.
US, 1969, 35mm, black & white, 110 min.

Milton Moses Ginsberg’s first film depicts, through the detailed and varied performance of Rip Torn, a psychiatrist descending into psychosis. All of the action occurs inside one apartment through the viewfinder of a camera the psychiatrist, Joe, has set up to document his interactions and sexual encounters with female visitors. The experience of the film is infused with the knowledge that Joe’s actions are governed by his awareness of the camera. Torn’s performance captures the self-conscious gestures and intonations of a person shaping his own image; precipitating diary films, the camera’s voyeuristic gaze is shared by both audience and subject.

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