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UNITED STATES · 1996
Beautiful Funerals
Synopsis
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines. Finally there is a brilliant pinkish flare veined with curled blue lin
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United States · European Art Cinema
Films with Similar Themes
abstract expressionism · mortality and remembrance · hand-painted animation · color and light symbolism · optical sensation
