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| Filmforum at the Egyptian Theater | |
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| February 16 | Stan Brakhage: A Tribute for his 70th Birthday |
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| In celebration of Stan Brakhage’s seventieth birthday this year, Film Forum is proud to present the second in a series of programs surveying his remarkable contributions to the art of film. | ||
| Hell Spit Flexion (1983, 16mm, color, silent, 1 min.) My moving-visual response to William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell," this hand-painted film seems the most rhythmically exact of all my work: it was inspired by memories of an old man coughing in the night of a thing-walled ancient hotel...a triumph of rhythm thru to inspiration. Dedicated to Bill and Stella Pence. --Stan Brakhage Tortured Dust (1984, 16mm, color, silent, 88 min.) 'Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn, to a stone angel, to the face of a cracked sundial? Why should she be, she screamed, this common clay, this tortured dust?' -- from 'Miss MacIntosh, My Darling' by Marguerite Young...to whom this film is gratefully dedicated. -- Stan Brakhage | ||
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