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The Lion and the Zebra Make God’s Raw Jewels
UNITED STATES · 1999

The Lion and the Zebra Make God’s Raw Jewels

Stan Brakhage
abstract painting nature predation animal forms hand-painted cinema visceral imagery
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Synopsis

This film is a hand-painted combination of shapes which suggest, as appropriately colored, jungle, open veldt, horizontals of grasses, shag-shape yellow of lion's mane, the black & white stripes of the zebra, the eyes, the teeth, the tearing open into raw blood-red meat and curve of bone. Nonetheless the film is in no sense an animation work but rather a collection of mostly un-nameable shapes whi

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