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Persian Series #5
UNITED STATES · 1999

Persian Series #5

Stan Brakhage
abstract visual language color field progression organic forms and patterns visual evolution and transformation experimental film technique
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Synopsis

Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and flowers as if trying, linearly, to evolve a glyph-script. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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