Round 4: Tossup 9

This non-Australian film was shot through a sheet of gauze placed a meter in front of the camera to produce a “washed out” appearance. This film’s last shot depicts the rotation of machinery in a mill slowly coming to a halt. This film repeatedly zooms in on passages from a book that its director described as “an actor, just as much as the others.” This film’s protagonist watches a man digging in reverse, after he walks along a river in tandem with a shadow reflected on the opposite bank’s surface. The ringing of church bells swells as this film’s camera points directly at the sky, adopting the perspective of the protagonist’s (*) corpse inside a coffin (-5[1])en route to burial, in an out-of-body experience. In this film’s (10[1])opening scene, the protagonist Allan Gray arrives at an (10[1])inn in Courtempierre, where he stares at a sailor’s long scythe. For 10 points, Sheridan Le Fanu’s stories In a Glass Darkly and Carmilla inspired what Carl Theodor Dreyer film about a bloodsucker? ■END■

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