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NOVA KINO FILMS
mark boswell
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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