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By Night with Torch and Spear

1942· 0h 8m

Directed by Joseph Cornell

5.6/ 10

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Overview

Smoke, sparks and steam dance together in Cornell's found-footage collage. Backwards title cards (or an alien language, if you like) punctuate this mishmash of the industrial and the ancient.

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