"Waves" Goes the Wrong Direction in Racial Depiction, Despite Its Intent and Beauty
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Noodle Spinner takes some basic documentary footage of a Chinese noodle spinner and then loops, split, reduces and staggers it to present a series of multiple-image collages in motion: in an inventive way the film's form thus resembles the process it was seeking to represent.
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