Occam's Thread
- Stan Brakhage |
- 2001 |
- 7 minutes |
- COLOR |
- SILENT
Rental Format(s): 16mm film
This is a hand painted, step-printed work which views Occam's economical vision of life ('The Razor's Edge') as something more thread-like: a staggered black line, growing steadily more solid, albeit often 'tangled', trails vertically across the film surface, insinuating itself (its 'life', as it were) through a series of various paint shapes, some of which seem as if about to destroy it, bury it in black patches or cut into it: finally the line is as if severed in glare of white leader ending in multicolored paint-patch.