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UNITED STATES · 1996
Beautiful Funerals
European Art Cinema
abstract expressionism
mortality and remembrance
hand-painted animation
color and light symbolism
optical sensation
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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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