Black and White Trypps Number Four (2008)

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Audience Score
58
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NR 10 minJun 20th, 2008TRYPPS #1-7 PosterPart of TRYPPS #1-7
Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving historically incompatible racial stereotypes
StarringRichard Pryor
DirectorBen Russell

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Black and White Trypps Number Four on the Web:Official Website
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TRYPPS #1-7

“Using a fabricated Old English word as its guiding principle, this ongoing series of (mostly) 16mm films is conceptually organized around the possible meanings that its title elicits - physical voyages, psychedelic journeys, and a phenomenological experience of the world. Begun in 2005 in a somewhat vain attempt to hold cinema up as a mirror to the live and fully embodied reception of the crazy noise music scene in Providence, Rhode Island, the TRYPPS films quickly expanded their formal and critical language to include the various poles of action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy, global capitalism, and trance-dance a lá Jean Rouch. While the form of these works varies radically from one to the next, when taken as a whole they can be seen to enunciate what their maker calls "psychedelic ethnography" - a practice whose aim is a knowledge of the Self/self, a movement towards understanding in which the trip is both the means and the end.” – Ben Russell