No. 11: Mirror Animations
Harry Smith, USA, 1956-57, 16 mm, color, 3:35 or 8 min. Features Thelonious Monk’s Misterioso.
Cut-up and collage animation. Later expanded to No. 17
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Early Abstractions (1946-57) by HARRY SMITH (October 27, 2010)
The Sound of Progress
Alexander Oey, 19987-1988?, Germany, 40 min
The Sound of Progress – Pop Music according to Foetus, Coil, Current 93 & Test Dept
A Dutch documentary (around ’88) originally aired on Dutch television, as well as shown at the 1988 Rotterdam International Film Festival, with Interviews with J.G. Thirlwell, John Ballance, David Tibet and the guys from Test Dept and parts of live performances of the bands. In case of Foetus the featured tracks are: « Anything », « DI-1-9026 » and « Boxhead » from the tour ’86.
Goya – Crazy Like A Genius
Ian MacMillan, UK, 2002, 70 min
Documentary in which the late art critic Robert Hughes travels across Spain in search of the reality beyond the mythology of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Goya has long been Hughes‘s favourite artist but has become a particular obsession since a near-fatal car accident left Hughes living with nightmares of Goya‘s often dark and violent imagery. – BBC FOUR
Stellar
Stan Brakhage, USA, 1993, 2 min 20 sec, Silent
The Wold Shadow
Stan Brakhage, USA, 1972, 2 min 30 sec, Silent
A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in the shadows? Something green is out of focus. The light flashes, and the screen goes dark from time to time. We look up close at the bark of trees. Is the god of the forest to be seen?
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‘Original Creators: STAN BRAKHAGE’ presented by The Creators Project (August 10, 2011)
Glaze of Cathexis (1990) by STAN BRAKHAGE (January 24, 2011)
Cat’s Cradle (1959) by STAN BRAKHAGE (January 23, 2011)
Vredens Dag (Day of Wrath)
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danemark, 1943, 92 min
The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th century Denmark.
