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THEME EXPLORATION

ephemeral imagery

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Persian Series #8
Persian Series #8
2000 · Stan Brakhage
Filmstudie
Filmstudie
1926 · Hans Richter
Blue Propeller
Blue Propeller
2013 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“Dante’s Inferno”
“Dante’s Inferno”
1967 · Ken Russell
Garden of Luxor
Garden of Luxor
1973 · Derek Jarman
School in the Crosshairs
School in the Crosshairs
1981 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Seances
Seances
2016 · Guy Maddin
Sentimental Romance
Sentimental Romance
1931 · Sergei Eisenstein
A TV Dante
A TV Dante
1990 · Peter Greenaway
My New Picture
My New Picture
2007 · Bertrand Bonello
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011 · Michael Winterbottom
6-18-67
6-18-67
1967 · George Lucas
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky → Soviet Union

His films meditate on fleeting moments of grace and memory through long takes that capture the transient nature of human experience and natural phenomena.

Agnès Varda → France

She documents the passage of time and impermanence through intimate portraiture and experimental cinema, treating each frame as a fragile record of vanishing moments.

Stan Brakhage → United States

His avant-garde visual poems directly explore perception itself through abstract imagery and flickering light, emphasizing cinema's ephemeral essence as moving light on a screen.

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