The Dante Quartet

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Audience Member A Stan Brakhage short film; one of his pretty ones. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member avant garde is not my favorite. however it's something different and I like the paintings... Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member one his most amazing works. an almost completely abstract interpretation of dantes divine comedy. the colors and composition are worthy of pollock. its gesture as color. absolutely wonderful. "existence as song" makes you want to cry and you dont know why. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Gesture as color (a la Jackson Pollack) superimposed over a representational film. A cool little visual piece that makes me think about the weirdness of the film medium. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Of the hand-painted films, this is one of the most compelling, due to its thematic structure, varying aspect ratios, and use of actual footage under the paint. Having not read Dante, I'm probably not getting the full effect. I suspect it doesn't quite work as he intended. But as a visual treat, it's a rapid series of striking images. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A painstakingly made visual imagining of the Divine Comedy. By 1987, Brakhage's films had become increasingly abstract and relied on cameraless animation ala Norman McLaren. The Dante Quartet maintains the mythapoeic qualities of his epic Dog Star Man, but is rendered in the more abstract style typical of the films of the period. This is some of Brakhage's finest, most painterly work and the shifting abstract shapes give way to almost subliminal remnants of the footage buried beneath the paint. One of the master's crowning achievements. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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