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Cricket Requiem
UNITED STATES · 1999

Cricket Requiem

Stan Brakhage
abstract animation hand-painted film optical printing visual abstraction nature imagery
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Synopsis

CRICKET REQUIEM is a hand-painted and elaborately step-printed film which juxtaposes bent, sometimes saw-tooth, scratch shapes multiply colored in pastels on a white field juxtaposed with emerging, and sometimes retreating, bi-pack imagery of the faintest imaginable lines (solarized lines) etched in brown-black. This interplay continues until the latter imagery begins to dominate with increasing r

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