Saturday, July 31, 2010

Window Water Baby Moving. 1959. Directed by Stan Brakhage.

(10/30/00)

In a word, it's gross. The creation of human life might be a wondrous thing, but the actual sight of a baby coming out of its mother's body is ugly and messy.

The image that I most remember from this film is Jane's swollen belly. I could really feel the tension as the fetus caem out. There was a lot of rapid cutting. Stan himself appears, looking much different from the image of Brakhage which is so familiar. My guess is that he hadn't developed his persona by this point.

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