In the spirit of the Roman, Arabic, Egyptian and Babylonian Series, these hand-painted films attempt to imagine the kind of Persian visual thinking which created their calligraphy, miniatures and aesthetic designs in general. (Stan Brakhage)
Filter Films
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In the spirit of the Roman, Arabic, Egyptian and Babylonian Series, these hand-painted films attempt to imagine the kind of Persian visual thinking which created their calligraphy, miniatures and aesthetic designs in general. (Stan Brakhage)
Persian Series #7
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This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually give way to pale suggestions of pastel colours. These take shape occasionally and flicker the forthcoming bits of solid coloured and multiply formed abstract images, a few brief sequences-of-such interspersed with the cloud-suggestive passages as at beginning, which eventually end the film (Stan Brakhage).
Cloud Chamber
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Usually studies of faces, objects, machines or abstractions carry a sense of heightening montage. In this case the filmmaker, preferring dramatic effects to anecdotes, is preoccupied less with situating the action in time and space than producing malleable visual material and the aesthetics of montage. The space created in the film presents a neutral architecture, utilitarian and mechanistic, where the protagonists ponder the torrid universe which has been created in their image.
Beluga Crash Blues
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“Hoolboom” is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom. With some collaboration from Mike, Wrik has produced a film about the body, self-awareness, and the art of film.
Hoolboom
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A sexual predator entices a four-year-old girl into his car and goes to an abandoned rail station. Soon after, a jogger follows an eerie hunch to search the rail station. The musical score and a train are the only sounds in this short, emotional drama about pure wounding. The use of Super 8 gives the feeling of memory.
Marshmallow
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The film is a pornographically baroque excursion through fragmented and discontinuous scenes where indulgence and excess govern. “Vulgar” interweaves pathetic onanistic sex, pointless conversation and petty crime, making for an eruptive and distasteful off-coloured mosaic.
Vulgar – incomplete ‘n yet whole
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An invalid’s fantasy? Desiring his own end and, as it were, discharging himself, Claremore takes revenge upon “the institution.”
Doc Mulsic
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A certain immeasurable moment in which one’s consciousness involuntarily recedes from its object of focus to get lost and caught up in the tyrannies of distraction.
One’s Exigency
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A game of cat and mouse between two refined or gentlemanly perverts. Racitot seeks out the details of Hugo’s sex-play as Hugo artfully dodges and counters his interrogator by means of “the tease.”
Seeing the Literature in Racitot
