FILMSCSecondary Currents1981

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How Long Is “Secondary Currents”?

Name: Secondary Currents
Released: 1981
Duration: 16 min

16m runtime

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film with a runtime of 16 minutes, released in 1981. Presented in English.

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Runtime16m

Minutes16

One SittingYes

With Break28m

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Secondary Currents is a film about the relationships between the mind and language. Delivered by an improbable narrator who speaks an extended assortment of nonsense, it is an 'imageless' film in which the shifting relationships between voice-over commentary and subtitled narration constitute a peculiar duet for voice, thought, speech, and sound. A kind of comic opera, the film is a dark metaphor for the order and entropy of language and has been the subject of a number of articles on the use of language in the arts.

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Runtime16m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break28m

Movie Facts

Release Year1981

Runtime16m

LanguageEnglish

DirectorPeter Rose

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