Directed by Morgan Fisher , ( ) is a 2003 silent film is shot entirely in close-ups, considering the "status of the insert shot in an ingenious way", according to film expert Susan Oxtoby .

"Inserts are above all instrumental. They have a job to do, and they do it; and they do little, if anything, else. Sometimes inserts are remarkably beautiful, but this beauty is usually hard to see because the only thing that registers is the news, the expository information, that the insert conveys.… By chance, I learned that the root of 'parenthesis' is a Greek word that means the act of inserting. And so I was given the title of the film."

It is filmed in both colour and black and white, on 16mm.

( ) was screened once at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, as part of their Wavelengths programming.

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