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Shockingly Hot
UNITED STATES · 1996

Shockingly Hot

Stan Brakhage
hand-painted animation abstract expressionism fire and flame experimental film visual rhythm
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Synopsis

This little hand-painted film was over-a-year in the making, and absolutely dependent upon a quality of "broad-stroke" in the painting which I think only children really capable of achieving, at least insofar as such stroke can approximate flame. These strokes/flames had, then, to be chopped back to the frame, in order to exist meaningfully on film. They had to be so timed as to epitomize the rele

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