Avant-garde Showcase: Stan Brakhage October 24, 2010

Color, Black and White, 16mm
Silent
U.S.
98 minutes

We commence a recurring showcase of international experimental cinema with this program of films by Stan Brakhage, the luminary artist whose oeuvre of over 350 films comprises the passionate, expansive and visionary poetry of one of the most important figures in the history of American cinema.

Spanning several decades of Brakhage’s career, the selected films: Thigh Line Lyre Triangular (1961, 5 minutes); The Animals of Eden and After (1970, 35 minutes); Creation (1979, 17 minutes); He Was Born, He Suffered, He Died (1974, 7 minutes); The Mammals of Victoria (1994, 34 minutes). Prints include recent restorations by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has dedicated itself to the preservation of Brakhage’s films.

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