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Artist Christian Flemm visits Silver City Grocery with three rare 16mm prints of filmmaker Will Hindle’s rarely-seen work, including his cosmic, subaquatic masterpiece Watersmith. A key figure of the New American Cinema movement, Hindle's use of homemade devices for optical printing and rear projection allowed him to manipulate texture and rhythm in ways that feel both intimate and transcendent, inviting viewers to experience cinema not as narrative, but as a personal and sensory journey. New York Times critic Vincent Canby calls Watersmith "beautiful abstract patterns of lines of energy. A kind of ode to physical grace." A deceptively "calm" film requiring an equally calm audience and a superior soundtrack reproduction system, WATERSMITH weaves its lone visual threads closer and closer until the screen is awash with multiple levels of artistic achievement, technical supremacy, physical and mental demands and rewards ... for the relaxed and receptive viewer. Not a flash and funk work. A film to be seen again and again.