UNITED STATES · 1996

Sexual Saga

Stan Brakhage
European Art Cinema abstract animation hand-painted film color study anatomical imagery visual rhythm
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This hand-painted step-printed film begins with "explosions" of white, yellow, orange (deepening into reds), vermillion, and darker red flame shapes. Then there are anatomical beseeming solid yellows against flickering reds. Multiple dissolves of all previous forms and flickering shapes interspersed with blacks and replaced by "dolly in" movements (of the same) interspersed with white, then increa

Year1996
CountryUnited States
DirectorStan Brakhage
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