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Female Mystique and Spare Leaves
UNITED STATES · 1998

Female Mystique and Spare Leaves

Stan Brakhage
experimental cinema poetic abstraction visual poetry archival preservation mid-1960s avant-garde
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Synopsis

Here are a couple films from the mid-'60s, given to Gordon Rosenblum at the time, which surfaced this year needing preservation. I don't know what to make of either of them except some insistent quality of "poem" each somehow is. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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