"The full 35-millimeter frame allows for more detail and diversity than Brakhage's customary narrower gauges. In the first section, multicolored blobs contrast with fuzzy photographed lights; in the third, flickering specks become hundreds of tiny rods and later cracks in paint. Rhythmic complexity has long been a characteristic of Brakhage's work, but the series takes polyphony to new heights by creating different movements in different portions of the frame; there's a sense of shapes being generated and reabsorbed in a cosmic vision of eternal change." -- Fred Camper, Chicago Reader. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
United States of America
12 minutes
1992
Stan Brakhage
1969
7.6
1970
7.0
1950
8.1
1968
8.3
1990
7.5
1995
7.5
1968
0.0
1988
6.3
1999
6.5
1916
0.0
1947
5.6
1951
10.0
1967
7.6
1970
0.0
1967
0.0
1945
5.5
1947
7.4
1976
0.0
1980
0.0
1967
0.0