Chess

Original title: Échecs
Duration: 32 min
Release date: 1972-12-30
IMDB

Filmic essai on different chess methods combined with an adapted sound setting made in collaboration with chess grandmaster Alberic O'Kelly de Galway. Voted for in the Sight & Sound 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll.

Documentary

Échecs

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