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Beginning in boyhood, on a Sunday walk in winter, I had had to distinguish between ordinary experience, including that of the senses, mind, and imagination--almost all, in short--and extraordinary experience, a kind that was rare, unwilled, sui generis, and superior.
Despite their divergent aesthetic approaches, which range from Ydessa's free-form digital video in swimmy color to the flip-book montage that animates a series of black-and-white stills in Salut, the three films achieve dense, sometimes unwilled coherence.
Only the pain of torture could elicit an unwilled testimony, both verbal and physical, for the body was thought to have a spontaneous language of its own expressed through tears, blushing and bleeding.
 
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