Firepage
- Bruce James Cooper |
- 1991 |
- 3 minutes |
- COLOR |
- SILENT
Rental Format(s): 16mm film
While the content of this film is fire and the Chinese New Year the true subject is hypnagogic vision - a kind of optical feedback of the eyes that one can experience in moments of excitement, stress or deeply felt emotion. Stan Brakhage, the poet-filmmaker who raise hypnogogic vision to an art, told me this film haunted him for some time after seeing it. Note: the 3m film is printed twice on the reel - once silent an once with an experimental sound collage of aural feedback.