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Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.
Direction
Ader turns a backyard stunt into conceptual art history.
Practical Effects
Zero CGI. Just a man, a chair, and bad decisions.
Editing
The cut to black hits harder than the ground.

Director
Bas Jan Ader
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