By Brakhage: An Anthology

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Audience Member A must have/see. This is amazing. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member "Desistfilm" is an archaic short that reminds me of Anger's "Fireworks". "Wedlock House: An Intercourse" does great things with monochromatic lighting. "Dog Star Man" is visually arresting, but silent and often tedious. "The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes" is a half hour of autopsies. It's graphic, gruesome and hard to watch. The second volumes most memorable piece is "Window Water Baby Moving" which depicts the grotesquery of birth . Brakhage's signature barrage of abstract paintings is epitomized in "Love Song", a fitting end to the 26 item collection. It's far more educational and inspirational than entertaining. Brakhage is more visual artist than director. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member whew. this was extremely challenging. and beautiful. and grotesque. the complete silence you're in for much of these 2.5 hours or so is totally unnerving. for the uninitiated (as i was until now) the "brakhage on brakhage" interviews should probably watched FIRST rather than last. it gives some language to what often feels like some seriously alien shit. i might actually buy this. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member To review each of the twenty-six films presented in this set would have been a bit tedious, so I decided to just write one review for the whole set. Stan Brakhage was the ultimate in experimental filmmaking. Many of his works consists of images scratched or painted directly onto film by hand. Most of them are completely without audio. Some are pretty graphic and unsettling. Some of the highlights include: DOG STAR MAN - over an hour long and more than just a psychedelic head trip THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES - a half-hour of footage from actual human autopsies WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING - 12 minutes of acutal childbirth in explicit detail MOTHLIGHT - 3 minutes of various items found in nature adhered to a strip of perforated tape EYE MYTH - 9 seconds of brilliance THE STARS ARE BEAUTIFUL - 18 minutes of stellar images linked with audio of various myths about space, intercut with images of his wife and children clipping a chicken's wings KINDERING - an unsettling three minutes of children at play THE DANTE QUARTET - visions of Hell RAGE NET - 52 seconds UNTITLED (FOR MARILYN) - 11 minutes, and possibly my favorite BLACK ICE - 2 minutes which seem to come out of the screen COMMINGLED CONTAINERS - 3 minutes of artistic water Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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