Fog Line

Fog Line is a 1970 short silent experimental film directed by Larry Gottheim.

Two sets of telephone lines run across the frame, roughly trisecting the image (thus the title).

[3] A digital transfer was made for its inclusion in the 2008 DVD collection Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986.

[4] Critic Dave Kehr called Fog Line "one of the most hauntingly beautiful of all avant-garde films".

[5] In his column for Take One, Bob Cowan praised it as among the best minimalist films he had seen, commenting, "It has a sense of the mysterious; one never knows the precise point at which the transformations take place.

The faintly visible shapes of the landscape become clearer over the course of the film.