UNITED STATES · 2000

The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him

Stan Brakhage
European Art Cinema light and reflection water imagery abstract cinematography experimental film maritime symbolism
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This film of single-strand photography begins with the "fire" of reflective light on water and on the barest inferences of a ship. Throughout, the interwoven play of light and water tell the inferred "tale" of the film through rhythm, the tempo, through visible textures and forms in gradual evolution, through resultant "moods" generated by these modes of making, and, then, by the increasingly dist

Year2000
CountryUnited States
DirectorStan Brakhage
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