UNITED STATES · 1996

Polite Madness

Stan Brakhage
European Art Cinema abstract animation hand-painted film optical illusions geographic transformation light and shadow
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Synopsis

A hand-painted elaborately step-printed film which begins in blues and greens with golden geographic-beseeming continents which evolve into symmetricals and dark passages (including a whirling tunnel) whitening to create many bas-relief (photographic solarization) fragments of these previous forms that then flicker vibrantly in a field of ever whitening light.

Year1996
CountryUnited States
DirectorStan Brakhage
Polite Madness poster

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