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UNITED STATES · 1996

Prelude 23

Stan Brakhage
European Art Cinema hand-painted frames double printing abstract visual texture layered composition chromatic abstraction
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Synopsis

Prelude 23 is doubly-printed hand-painted frames causing an effect almost as if wisps of tone were tinting the film intercut with sharp thin lines which "fatten," then, into thick crowded layers of paint, senses of great visual depth.

Year1996
CountryUnited States
DirectorStan Brakhage
MovementEuropean Art Cinema
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