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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Pjoernrachzarck on 2025-06-30 19:46:10+00:00.
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Nobody ever saw Ambrosio (1968), Minsky (1970) or Two of Everything (1999).
Three movies starting ‘Marissa Marcel’ (Manon Gage), all exploring the exploitation of the muse by the artist, none were ever released. Marcel disappeared, as did her director, and all three movies are believed to have been lost.
‘Immortality’ is a movie essay masquerading as a video game, in which you assume the role of an editor, digging through rediscovered footage of all three movies, shot in the style of their respective eras of filmmaking. You get access to the ‘raw material’ - before and after cuts were supposed to be made. There’s some behind the scenes material too, some televised bits, a few private moments shot by the ‘actors’ - and maybe something else lurking inbetween the frames.
This movie / puzzle / interactive fiction hybrid came and went, it certainly passed me by, and there doesn’t appear to be a /r/movies thread about it. The shot a huge amount of material, and you can examine a shot, finding thematic or visual links to other shots, which in a surreal and disjointed manner slowly reveals not just three very different movies, but a whole range of stories - in front and behind the camera - that, in the end, are just one story.
https://youtu.be/mXWQjefdbko
This kind of thing is certainly not for everyone, but man. It’s such a unique way to do ‘movies!’ and while its not without acclaim, I think it deserves a larger audience than it currently has.
