Edge of Doom
Synopsis
A short succession of splits-screens gathers women in the throes of extreme states, screaming, with eyes wide, arms thrown up in dismay, angular eyebrows, stunned mouths – laying, running, standing, leaping to their feet: instants of extreme emotions sought and found in silent films of the 1920s.
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