UNITED STATES · 1999

Moilsome Toilsome

Stan Brakhage
European Art Cinema whale behavior aquatic environment experimental cinematography nature observation visual abstraction
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This is a photographed filmic searching-for-whales, the camerawork and editing attempting to approximate something of the rubbing up against water of the whale, of the surface foam and the hard coils of water through which it swims, of the gray-greens and blacks of its environment. And then suddenly there is the vision of many whales rolling, breeching, twisting and turning in various play with ea

Year1999
CountryUnited States
DirectorStan Brakhage
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