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Barbara Steele

"After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin."

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"After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin."

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