Ephemeral Solidity

Film Maker
Brakhage, Stan
Year
1993
Country
U.S.A.
Language
Format
35mm/16mm
Length
4
Genre
experimental
Category
cameraless

This is one of the most elaborately edited of all the hand-painted films of late – a Haydenesque complexity of thematic variations on a totally visual (i.e., un-musical) theme. This film is composed of 35mm hand-painted images reduced to 16mm film, single-frames, shots of two, three, four frames and, occasionally, slightly longer shots, all interspersed with a variety of calculated lengths of black leader which cause a flickering of abstract patterns in rhythmed darkness.

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