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phantasmagoria
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phantasmagoria, phantasmagory
Films a sequence of pictures made to vary in size rapidly while remaining in focus


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Traces, condemned by Walter Benjamin as "the phantasmagorias of the interior, which are constituted by man's imperious need to leave the imprint of his private individual existence on the rooms he inhabits," bring Fried back into dialogue with Clark's "great book," a case of critical and scholarly exchange exemplary in its seriousness and courtesy.
Made after Khakhar was diagnosed with cancer, these works reflect on mortality but also suggest that sexual phantasmagorias mirror the tragic and often violent facts of life.
 
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