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Released
1943 · FILM

Geography of the Body

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Runtime
7 min
Documentary

Synopsis

A quotation from Aristophanes, "The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love," precedes depictions of a man and a woman's bodies, often shown in extreme close-up. Off-screen, a voice recites fragments of oracular literature and purple prose. The film presents an eye, an ear, a mouth, a tongue, bits of hair, a hand, the tips of fingers, and toes. Occasionally, the frame expands to show a larger part of a body: a chest, a back, or a breast. The camera is usually stationary; at times, it moves across a body, remaining in close-up. At one moment, the two hold hands. The bodies are unclothed, though no genitalia are visible.

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Principal cast & crew: 3

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

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Shot by Marie Menken

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