Unstrung Nerves is an outlet for expressing not just a love of film, but a love of thinking critically about the films we love (and hate, for that matter) and their impact on society. Dziga Vertov, the Soviet filmmaker and theorist, believed that “Cinema’s unstrung nerves need a rigorous system of precise movement.” This site believes the opposite: that truly radical film lies in the unruly, the uncontrollable, the painfully human. This site is for those people who feel left out by mainstream cinema’s relentless march of fascistic film automata, who know that film can be more than just a corporate magic trick. The unstrung nerves of cinema will not be put in place.
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