We Hold These

Film Maker
Brakhage, Stan
Year
1995
Country
U.S.A.
Language
Format
16mm
Length
12
Genre
experimental
Category
Architecture

The “Truths” of this film, which the title prompts, are slightly recognizable patterns of fish and animal biology, plant and flower shapes, and human anatomy which are interwoven with pastel cubes and other geometries – pastels as if “hung” in a white light interwoven with straight and diagonally bent black lines, eventually clear architectural forms. The recognizable patterns are literally etched on black leader (primarily) and interspersed with very organic painted forms on white. There is often an intended sense of hair and mucous membrane amidst these forms and interwoven with the electric “x-ray” sense of bones. The interplay between black-and-white sections and multi-colored sections increases until there is some sense of merging the two toward the end. (Note: Each frame is double-printed). This film is the second part of “The Hand-Painted Trilogy.” (SB)

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