Once Within a Time
Oscilloscope Laboratories | Release Date: October 13, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 15, 2023
Once Within a Time runs 52 minutes, and it’s so lovely, funny, and charming that it feels like 15. But when it’s over, you feel like you’ve seen the world. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyOct 13, 2023
Clocking in at 51 minutes, the film is all mood, all rhythm, with a kaleidoscope structure and undulating ever-shifting visuals in a constant state of flux. It's not a "story" so much as a tone-poem collage about technology, knowledge, innocence/experience, and the potential end of the world. Read full review
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Slant MagazineWilliam RepassOct 9, 2023
The film proposes that, in the search for viable alternatives to techno-fascism and climate apocalypse, we might look to the margins of our world, to unfulfilled experiments (including those of cinema) and cultures supposedly left behind by history. Read full review
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