UNITED STATES · 1996

Beautiful Funerals

Stan Brakhage
European Art Cinema abstract expressionism mortality and remembrance hand-painted animation color and light symbolism optical sensation
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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

Year1996
CountryUnited States
DirectorStan Brakhage
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