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Byline: Dodie Kazanjian
On view at New York's Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Los Angeles is British-born artist Sarah Morris's fifth short film about an American city. Shot on an old-fashioned 35mm CinemaScope, it documents the week leading up to last year's Oscars from an unusual vantage point: behind and off the famed red carpet. "I always wanted to shoot a film about filmmaking," Morris says, "and the Academy Awards represents the most narcissistic, extreme moment of a city celebrating itself." A wordless sequence of ...