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Blu-ray

By Brakhage : an anthology. Volume one.

Call Number

  • BLU-RAY 791.43611 B99311 (CEN)

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Edition

Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

Silent or in English.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (234 minutes) : sound and silent, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of 'birth, sex, death, and the search for God,' he turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were created without using a camera at all, as he pioneered the art of making images directly on film, by drawing, painting, and scratching. With these two volumes, we present the definitive Brakhage collection--fifty-six of his works, from across his career, in high-definition digital transfers"--Container.

Notes

Originally produced as individual short films 1954-2001.

Disc originally released as part of the 2021 re-issue of the 3-disc set By Brakhage: An Anthology Volumes One and Two.

Special features: High-definition digital transfers of all twenty-six films, with uncompressed audio for those with sound ; Brakhage on Brakhage, four video encounters with the filmmaker ; audio remarks on selected films by director Stan Brakhage.

Contents

  • Desistfilm (1954, 7 min., mono.)
  • Wedlock House : an intercourse (1959, 11 min., silent)
  • Dog star man (1961-64, 75 min., silent)
  • The Act of seeing with one's own eyes (1971, 32 min., silent)
  • Cat's cradle (1959, 6 min., silent)
  • Window water baby moving (1959, 12 min., silent)
  • Mothlight (1963, 3 min., silent)
  • Eye myth (1967, 9 sec., silent)
  • The Wold-shadow (1972, 2 min., silent)
  • The Garden of earthly delights (1981, 2 min., silent)
  • The Stars are beautiful (1974, 18 min., mono.)
  • Kindering (1987, 3 min., mono.)
  • I-- dreaming (1988, 7 min., mono.)
  • The Dante Quartet (1987, 6 min., silent)
  • Night music (1986, 30 sec., silent)
  • Rage net (1988, 35 sec., silent)
  • Glaze of Cathexis (1990, 3 min., silent)
  • Delicacies of molten horror synapse (1990, 8 min., silent)
  • Untitled (for Marilyn) (1992, 10 min., silent)
  • Black ice (1994, 2 min., silent)
  • Study in color and black and white (1993, 2 min., silent)
  • Stellar (1993, 2 min., silent)
  • Crack glass eulogy (1991, 6 min., mono.)
  • The Dark tower (1999, 2 min., silent)
  • Commingled containers (1997, 3 min., silent)
  • Lovesong (2001, 11 min., silent).

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