Kinkón

(1971)

★ 4.6 IMDb · 9 votes

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy

Year: 1971

Runtime: 7 мин

Country: Spain

Director: Iván Zulueta

Cast: King Kong, Fay Wray

Plot

Kinkón (1971), a silent adaptation of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1933 classic, King Kong. Zulueta re-filmed a television broadcast of the original, and through creative subtraction and manipulation of camera speed, condensed the original’s feature length to an intensified seven minutes. The cathode-ray flicker and flattening that results from the re-filming defamiliarises the original, but its classical continuity mode of address continues to operate on the viewer, and the increase in velocity makes mesmerisingly urgent the dramatic plot of the original. —Senses of Cinema