Mark Rappaport | 1974 | 80'

A vampire movie, a skin flick, a murder mystery, a structuralist film, and a soap opera all rolled into one. In Rappaport’s dazzling and bizarre feature-length debut, he focuses on states of imaginative possession and dispossession, demonstrating how impossible it is to separate fantasies, dreams, and realities.

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This month we are having a partial retrospective of the work of American filmmaker Mark Rappaport, an exponent of the New York 1970s independent cinema scene, who now based in Paris, hasn't ceased to release thought-provoking films year after year. Rappaport will be at Cavia on the 18th February for a Q&A followed by the screening of his revered classic, The Scenic Route (1978).