Even if it turns out Brakhage is not your thing, he needs to be experienced.
By Brakhage: An Anthology (1954)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:7
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9.4/10
Runtime: 4 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: Stan Brakhage revolutionized cinema while never having his films play in mainstream movie houses or multiplexes. The avant-garde artist rarely used any sort of narrative. His films, rather, contain... Stan Brakhage revolutionized cinema while never having his films play in mainstream movie houses or multiplexes. The avant-garde artist rarely used any sort of narrative. His films, rather, contain imagery ranging from nature studies to child birth to simply scratches on film. His pioneering technique includes a painstaking process marking film by hand rather than shooting film with a camera, a method that rarely enables the filmmaker to produce more than a half-second of film per day. This collection includes 26 shorts from the legendary Brakhage including his most famous work, DOG STAR MAN (1961-1964). Other selections include DESISTFILM (1954), MOTHLIGHT (1963), THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (1971), I...DREAMING (1988), and BLACK ICE (1994). [More]
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A one-of-a-kind release representing a moment in history when high-end technology was leveraged to present a great artist’s body of work to an ever-wider audience.
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