战后最早的组合式影片,可能是来自于法国的文字主义运动。希尔多•依苏的《论诽谤言语与永恒性》(Traite de bave et d'eternite),Treatise on Slime and Eternity,又名《诽谤言语与永恒性》Venom and Eternity (1951),运用随手取得的片段、刮损的影片、黑色银幕、闪烁画面组合而成。依苏在片中精力旺盛的旁白,也刻意地脱离同步。
An off-duty New York City Police Detective gets caught in an inner-city brawl between undercover cops convinced that he is a local street thug. The melee ends in a tragic death followed by an uproar within gangs and cops in neighboring communities and across the city.
When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, a filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project about romantic attraction, compatibility, and attachment that his mother hates.