UNITED STATES · 1997

Self Song/Death Song

Stan Brakhage
European Art Cinema mortality disease body horror abstract representation of illness light and darkness
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SELF SONG documents a body besieged by cancer. The amber glow of flesh suggests both victory and submission to death. Blackness surrounds the image and takes it over altogether. Furthermore, the complex grooves and patterns of the flesh struggle to maintain their focus, suggesting the obscuring and dissolving effects of cancer. In DEATH SONG the film begins with blue hues which suggest the permane

Year1997
CountryUnited States
DirectorStan Brakhage
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