Stan Brakhage "Anticipation of the Night" [Blu-Ray + DVD + 60 pages booklet] |
Label: Re:Voir 60ページブックレット付き、Blu-Ray + DVD両フォーマットコンボ版!!多くの説明は不要、米インディペンデント映画にて最も影響が大きい存在として知られるスタン・ブラッケージ。氏の初期代表作である[夜への前ぶれ]を初入荷!!死へのイメージを強く押し出している頃の作品であり、実際に自らの遺作として作られたフィルム。特徴である完全サイレントで進行するフィルム・ペイント及びスクラッチの高速イメージ。更に昼と夜の情景を交互に反復させ人間の闇を視覚化した凄まじい内容。 “The great achievement of Anticipation of the Night is the distillation of an intense and complex interior crisis into an orchestration of sights and associa- tions which cohere in a new formal rhetoric of camera movement and montage.” -P. Adams Sitney “Brakhage’s work offers an eloquent and deeply affecting alternative to consumer culture in the West. He abjures predigested emotions, predictable formulas, and “pretty pictures.” His lms cannot be reduced to a simple summary or message, and each viewer’s experience of them will necessarily be somewhat different. The engaged viewer is removed from the state of mind in which to look at a scene or sight is to desire it, covet it, think you understand it, and wish to own it: instead, Brakhage asks for both much less and much more — he asks that you dance with it.” -Fred Camper Brakhage’s death is an irreparable loss but also an opportunity for a new begin- ning. There was no catching up with Brakhage when he was alive, but now perhaps we can begin to discover and understand the full breadth and depth of his remarkable cinematic legacy. -Scott MacDonald |
