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Persian Series #1
UNITED STATES · 1999

Persian Series #1

Stan Brakhage
abstract animation hand-painted film color and light decay and deterioration experimental cinema
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Synopsis

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed by darkness, then becomes lit lightning-like by sharp multiply-colored twigs-of shape, all resolving into shapes of decay. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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