I’m happy to announce that a Stan Brakhage screening in Victoria, a project I have been trying (however intermittently) to make happen for a year now, is a go. Thanks to Michael Hoppe at Cinecenta and the UVic Art Department, we finally have funding for and dates for the screenings. In two consecutive Tuesdays, Cinecenta will be showing the entire Vancouver Island Quartet, four of Brakhage’s later films which are, as Marilyn Brakhage puts it: “grand meditations on childhood, adolescence, middle age and Stan’s imaginings of heaven—richly metaphorical and rhythmically beautiful. “
JAN 29 (7:15 only)
2 BY STAN BRAKHAGE:
THE CHILD’S GARDEN AND THE SERIOUS SEA (1991 80 min; colour; silent; 16mm)
THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (1994, 30 min; colour; silent; 16mm)
FEB 5 (7:15 only)
2 BY STAN BRAKHAGE
THE GOD OF DAY HAD GONE DOWN UPON HIM (2000, 50 min; colour; silent; 16mm)
PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF HEAVEN (2003, 32 min; colour; silent; 16mm)