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THE LION AND THE ZEBRA MAKE GOD'S RAW JEWELS


by Stan BRAKHAGE

1999 / 16 mm / coul / sil / 5' 30

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This film is a hand-painted combination of shapes which suggest, as appropriately colored, jungle, open veldt, horizontals of grasses, shag-shape yellow of lion's mane, the black & white stripes of the zebra, the eyes, the teeth, the tearing open into raw blood-red meat and curve of bone. Nonetheless the film is in no sense an animation work but rather a collection of mostly un-nameable shapes which gather round this recognizable iconography and visually dominate the image which repeats its, thus, ephemeral chase-and-catch increasingly closer, finally obliterating all but the "jewels," the multiple coloring, referred to in the title.


1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format 16 mm
1 reel (58 meters)
original format 16 mm
speed 24 ips
screen 1,37 - standard
sound sil
rental fee 25,00 €


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