
The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough
1981-09-17 · 32 min · ★ 9.5
A film that uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception, and the rapture of space.
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- Peter Rose
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- United States of America
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- Released
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