Arnold's source material is a piece of footage from the 1950s, eighteen seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: A living room, a woman in an armchair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a camera pan, his wife follows after him. In Arnold's film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exciting tango of movements. But Pièce Touchée is more than just a matter of forms; The reflections, distortions and delays it displays challenge cinema's stable system of space and time.
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Martin Arnold Director
United States release September 30, 1990 · Produced in Austria, France
Production
Austria · France
Produced in
Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Austria · January 1, 1989
Premiere
United States · September 30, 1990
Premiere · Source: IMDB (New York)
France
May 9, 1990 · Premiere · Source: IMDB (Cannes)
Russia
September 20, 2026 · Limited theatrical · Saint Petersburg International Experimental Film Festival
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