THREE HOMERICS

by Stan BRAKHAGE
1993 / color / silent / 1S / 6' 00

This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem:
1) «Diana holds back the night ...» is represented by dark shapes suppressing (almost angularly interfering with) orange-golden effusions of paint and the reflective paint-shapes of early morning greens (as if silhouettes or arm and bodily profile were shading the light)
2) «Homer's "... rolling sea ...» represented by hand-painted step-printed dissolves of blues in wave shapes, bubbles, and the soft browns and tender greens of seaweed, flotsam-jetsam
3) «Ah, love again, the light» represented by painted explosions of multiple hues and lines recurrently interrupted by the "blush" of soft suffusing reds.

1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION


distribution format 16mm
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound silent
rental fee 28,00 €