Blu-ray
By Brakhage : an anthology. Volume one.
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 Wedlock House : an intercourse Dog star man Act of seeing with one's own eyes Cat's cradle Window water baby moving Mothlight Eye myth Wold-shadow Garden of earthly delights Stars are beautiful Kindering I-- dreaming Dante Quartet Night music Rage net Glaze of Cathexis Delicacies of molten horror synapse Untitled (for Marilyn) Black ice Study in color and black and white Stellar Crack glass eulogy Dark tower Commingled containers Lovesong