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by Brakhage: an anthology
The Criterion Collection
FEATURES
Scene Access • Featurettes • New Essay and Film Capsules by Brakhage Expert Fred Camper OVERVIEW
Working completely outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly four hundred films over the past half-century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of "birth, sex, death, and the search for God," Brakhage turned his camera on lovemaking, childbirth, and even actual autopsy. Many of his most famous films pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Treating each frame as a miniature canvas, Brakhage pioneered the art of making images directly on film itself--starting with clear leader or exposed film, then scratching, drawing, and painting on it by hand. Brakhage sometimes produced only a quarter-second of film a day, but over the years, his visionary style of image making has influenced everything from cartoons and television commercials to MTV music videos and major motion pictures. Criterion is proud to present twenty-six masterworks by Stan Brakhage for the first time on DVD. Disc One: Desistfilm (1954) Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959) Dog Star Man (1961-1964) Prelude Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (1971) Disc Two: Cat's Cradle (1959) Window Water Baby Moving (1959) Mothlight (1963) Eye Myth (1972) The Wold Shadow (1972) The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981) The Stars are Beautiful (1974) Kindering (1987) I...Dreaming (1988) The Dante Quartet (1987) Nightmusic (1986) Rage Net (1988) Glaze of Cathexis (1990) Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (1991) Untitled (For Marilyn) (1992) Black Ice (1994) Study in Color and Black and White (1993) Stellar (1993) Crack Glass Eulogy (1996) The Dark Tower (1999) Commingled Containers (1997) Love Song (2001) EASTER EGGS
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