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UNITED STATES · 2000

Persian Series #8

Stan Brakhage
abstract organic forms botanical imagery visual rhythm and counterpoint figure-ground dissolution ephemeral perception
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Synopsis

Pale petal and stem-like shapes counter punted rhythmically by an even paler "background" of truly ephemeral of truly ephemeral (almost invisible) shapes. Again, the foreground movement is clockwise and often "ribbed" as the film darkens into a blend of foreground/background and, eventually, a meld as of white hardened clots fretted by glyphs.

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