Anticipation of the Night (1958)

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1. 

   LordKinbote

   The Youtube video (mod-edit: dead link below removed) is corrupted about half an hour in...unless there really is 5 minutes of black. I wouldn't put it past Brakhage. 11 years 9 months ago
2. 

   Armoreska

   Turns out it's the 50th Brakhage title I've seen
   Also probably the 2nd-most entertaining so far (after Water baby) 11 years 1 month ago
3. 

   elcid

   Brakhage himself gave also a summary of the *story":
   
   The daylight shadow of a man in movement evokes
   lights in the night. A rose bowl, held in hand, reflects
   both sun and moon-like illumination. The opening of
   a doorway onto trees anticipates the twilight into the
   night. A child is born on the lawn, born of water, with
   promissory rainbow, and the wild rose. It becomes the
   moon and the source of all night light. Lights of the
   night become young children playing a circular game.
   The moon moves over a pillared temple to which all
   lights return. There is seen the sleep of innocents and
   their animal dreams, becoming their amusement, their
   circular game, becoming the morning. The trees change
   color and lose their leaves for the morn, becomes the
   complexity of branches on which the shadow man hangs
   himself. 4 months 3 weeks ago

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