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THE ST. PETERSBURG PARADOX

8:30 minutes. 2007.

The St. Petersburg Paradox was invented by the Swiss Mathematician

Nicolas Bernoulli in 1713. The SPP describes a particular casino game (in a hypothetical St. Petersburg, Russia casino) that features a random variable with an infinite expected value.  SPP-the film-utilizes footage from Night of the Living Dead, Godard’s One Plus One,  & Casino by M. Scorsese and through a hallucinatory re-montage draws a grim portrait of a Texas Wastrel’s interpretation of l’Etranger with a gut punch Dadaistic finale.”

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