Four years to make, impossible to explain — this isn't a movie, it's a séance with celluloid.
America is a legend, an idea. To rediscover the traces of such an idea within the reality of a city requires a transformation of this very city into ideas and legends, to the point that life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, that which can be communicated, and that which cannot,high and low are open to a contradictory understanding. Film made between 1981 and 1985.
Direction
Saguenail's four-year commitment to incomprehensibility
Editing
Time itself becomes negotiable, collapsible
Director
Saguenail
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The title's paradox — 'to die a little' — suggests mortality by increments, matching the film's erosion of documentary into hallucination.
Made during Reagan's America, the film performs an autopsy on a nation before its corpse was cold — radical pessimism disguised as avant-garde formalism.
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