Blue Value

USA 1996, 16mm, col, silent, 2:30 min

realized by:

Stan Brakhage

available copies:

London Filmmakers Coop:

available for rent

Canyon Cinema Inc.:

available for rent

synopsis: Canyon Cinema online catalog 2004

This is a hand-painted step-printed film which begins with slow dissolves of what appear to be decaying leaves, crumpled browns and golds and oranges which assume qualities of earth and rock shot-through with flashes of crystalline prism colors and jagged scratch marks amidst glows of multiple coloration with increasing blues, varieties of tones of blue, from turquoise to near-purple - these variations of tone (and shape, as well) gradually convey, given the comparatively few appearances of blue, a formal domination over all other tones (and attendant shapes) of the spectrum of the film.

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