

Pièce touchée
Arnold's source material is a piece of footage from the 1950s, eighteen seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: A living room, a woman in an armchair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a camera pan, his wife follows after him. In Arnold's film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exciting tango of movements. But Pièce Touchée is more than just a matter of forms; The reflections, distortions and delays it displays challenge cinema's stable system of space and time.
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- short film
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United StatesUS
- PremiereSource: IMDB (New York)30 Sept 1990
AustriaAT
- Premiere1 Jan 1989
FranceFR
- PremiereSource: IMDB (Cannes)9 May 1990
RussiaRU
- Theatrical (limited)Saint Petersburg International Experimental Film Festival20 Sept 2026
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Pièce touchée was released on 20 September 2026.
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