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Instead, the film confronted its viewers with a frenetic parade of abstract visuals, using a variety of camera tricks that must have looked stunningly, even disturbingly, new—a ‘purely optical’ experience, as the artist described a later motion picture, ‘made to appeal only to the eyes.’” In an essay for the Criterion Collection release of Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray, Mark Polizzotti examines the origins of the influential surrealist and his incomparable film work. Copenhagen, December 12 through 14: The Danish Film Institute presents A Thousand Shadows , a weekend program dedicated to the work of Pedro Costa, featuring the filmmaker in person to discuss his own film Colossal Youth (2006) as well as other works that have inspired his practice, including Kenji Mizoguchi’s Flame of My Love (1949) and Jacques Tourneur’s The Fearmakers (1958). Baltimore, through February 1: The Baltimore Museum of Art, in conjunction with the Menil Collection, presents John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog , an immersive multichannel video installation by the London-based artist that uses “archival footage, still photography, and newly filmed materials overlaid with an immersive sound design” to collect perspectives of Civil Rights activists that collapses the past and present.