1981-1990HorrorJohn SmithShort FilmUnited Kingdom

John Smith – The Black Tower (1987) 

A man finds himself haunted by a mysterious black tower that appears to follow him wherever he goes.

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In The Black Tower we enter the world of a man haunted by a tower which, he believes, is following him around London. While the character of the central protagonist is indicated only by a narrative voice-over which takes us from unease to breakdown to mysterious death, the images, meticulously controlled and articulated, deliver a series of colour coded puzzles, jokes and puns which pull the viewer into a mind-teasing engagement. Smith’s assurance and skill as a filmmaker undercuts the notion of the avant-garde as dry, unprofessional and dull and in The Black Tower we have an example of a film which plays with the emotions as well as the language of film. –Nik Houghton, Independent Media 1987

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The Black Tower expands the core of Smith’s interests: chiefly, the image as a filmic fact which is constantly questioned and often undermined by language and soundtrack. Like his earlier films, The Black Tower is concerned with description, but this time framed by a story whose undertow of melancholy balances its wit and wry humour, and which is a remarkable fiction in its own right. –A.L. Rees, ‘Art in Cinema’, National Film Theatre, London 1987

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The hilarious and slightly menacing The Black Tower is one of the most accomplished films to come from the British avant-garde for years. –Michael O’Pray, Independent Media, 1987

	
The.Black.Tower.1987.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 23 min 10 s
Size: 534 MiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 768x576
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 3 000 kb/s
BPP: 0.271
Audio
#1: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/D2BA0B79A36BE15/The.Black.Tower.1987.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Italian

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