Tryst Haunt/The Harrowing
- Stan Brakhage |
- 1993 |
- 3.5 minutes |
- COLOR |
- SILENT
Rental Format(s): 16mm film
Tryst Haunt (3 mins.):
This is a hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are "played off" against some centered pale-hued areas of paint in such a way as to suggest a clearing in a forest of branches (which is, in the repetitive form of the whole film, only fleetingly seen) - a trysting place which flits through the mind like a ghost.
The Harrowing (3 mins.):
A hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to create varieties of tempo in mimic of sparking and molten rock. The recurrent centrality of certain painted forms, and the exploding magma-like flickering repetitions of all that surrounds the forms, suggests a harrowing process.
Note: THE HARROWING and TRYST HAUNT are available as a package at the price of $20.