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L.A. Carwash (1975)

L.A. Carwash is concerned with conjunctive and disjunctive couplings suggested by the qualities of light and sound at the Village Carwash in Los Angeles.
The film starts with clanks and whooshes on the soundtrack over a black screen and then switches to a dual screen image whose halves are slightly out of sync. Considered erotic by Bill Judson, former Carnegie Museum of Art Film Curator, and "a film that finally gives a cinematogenic subject it's due" by Los Angeles filmmaker Thom Andersen, the image and sound co-exist for only 4 seconds.  The sound was recorded out of phase and restructured into the form of a canon.
16mm film, DVD, or digital file
running time: 8min. 50 sec.
color/sound
original on super-8mm film

note: There is sound only ( the screen is black ) for the first 2 minutes of the film until the first image appears.
recent screenings:   ​L.A. Carwash   was exhibited 
July 14, 2025 at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh in a program of films from the Museum's collection entitled "Here or There"

https://carnegieart.org/event/here-or-there-3/
and on
April 22, 2024 at  
​ the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco in the Women of Canyon Cinema program
 
https://roxie.com/film/women-of-canyon-cinema/

Note:  There is no image, only sound & black screen for the first 2 minutes of this film.

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