Marilyn Times Five

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| director = Bruce Conner

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| starring = Arline Hunter[https://www.screenslate.com/features/756 Bruce Conner: REPORT (1963-1967) & MARILYN TIME FIVE (1968-1973)|Featured Screening|Screen Slate]

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| released = {{Film date|1973}}

| runtime = 14 minutes [https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film416990.html FilmAffinity]

| country = United States

| language = English

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Marilyn Times Five is a 1973 experimental film by American filmmaker Bruce Conner.

Plot

It is an exploration of how a film's form can influence audience perception of the content of film.[https://mubi.com/films/marilyn-times-five MUBI] An image of a female is looped several times. With each repetition, the content looses some of its emotional charge until the viewer experiences visual exhaustion.{{Citation |last=Conner |first=Bruce |title=Marilyn Times Five |type=Short |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130849/ |access-date=2025-06-17 |others=Arline Hunter, Marilyn Monroe}}

For this film, the footage comes from Apple Knockers and Coke, a famous porno loop from the late '40s featuring Monroe look-alike Arline Hunter

while the song "I'm Through With Love" [http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/cteq/marilyn-times-five/ Senses of Cinema] by Marilyn herself is playing.

[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/503658/marilyn-times-five TCM.com]

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