NAUGHTS

by Stan BRAKHAGE
1994 / 16mm / color / silent / 1S / 5' 30

A series of five hand-painted, step-printed films, each of which is a textured, thus tangible, "nothing." A series of "nots," then, in pun, or knots of otherwise invisible energies.
# 1. The first begins with a semblance of fog clouds rising vertically, an upward lifting waterfall likeness which screens an ephemera of painted shapes that come, at end, to a rhythmic and formal hardness.
# 2. A progression of blue surreal shapes vanishing in forward movements.
# 3. A gathering of crystalline forms in primary colors emitting upward-moving flares of multicolored lights, all gradually suggesting an outward momentum.
# 4. An orange rock-beseeming wall of lights and upward flares suddenly frozen and fading.
# 5. A mixture of crystal and cellular shapes interacting like layers of a fire of decomposition, fogged, and finally like a palimpsest of melding illuminations.

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