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Article: Computer love
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- The Village Voice
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- August 28, 2002
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Make Me Feel Mighty Real
*CORPUS CALLOSUM
Written and directed by Michael Snow Through September 10 at Film Forum
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Written and directed by Andrew Niccol New Line
Once upon a time, motion pictures were theorized as a technology of truth, 24 frames per second. But as movies lose their basis in photographed reality and grow closer to animation, they find their mission elsewhere: The Man With the Movie Camera is superseded by the Humanized Machine.
Such cyborgs abound in Michael Snow's *Corpus Callosum. Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-- musician gives full vent to his genius in this exhilarating perceptual ...