In this early short film from the pioneering Abel Gance, a scientist playing around with some white powder in his lab, begins either changing his body or how he sees the world, I couldn't figure out which. Regardless, this allows Gance to use trick mirrors to distort the picture. Then more people wander in, more powder gets thrown around, more distortion (until 80% of the screen is incomprehensible), until things are finally restored to normal. Then everyone sits down to champagne. This movie has no point except to fool around with technique, and since it's six minutes long, that's all right. But it's really more bizarre than cool. It can be found on the New York Film Annex's series of Experimental Films on Video under #18.
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