# animate! › Films › Within/Without by Benita Raphan › synopses

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, photographic animation, darkroom manipulation, identity, home, confinement, experimental short film, filmmaker

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**Within/Without** a film by Benita Raphan

1994, 9 min 28 sec

### animate! synopsis

Man, house, identity. A prison and a freedom. Explorations in the negative space of the manipulated photographic image. Public, private, poetic.

### short synopsis

A search for his own identity.

A man’s relationship to his house which protects him and imprisons him, both at the same time.

**Within/Without** is a story told through the dark-room processing and manipulation of photographic images.

**Within/Without** film, stills and other materials © Benita Raphan 1994