The dark tower /

Duration: 2

Year Published: 1999

Creator: by Stan Brakhage.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: silent

Credits: Brakhage, Stan, filmmaker.; Canyon Cinema, film distributor.; Film-Makers' Cooperative, film distributor.; Brakhage Collection.

Description: Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.; PFA 1604-01-16824. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only. CBPF; "This hand-painted step-printed film begins with streaks of glare light and vibrantly colored forms apparently in the sky for inasmuch as there appears, frame center, the tapered shape of a tower, a silhouette as it were against the backdrop of the flaring sky. As this shape of tower disappears, the conflagration of scratches and paints seems grounded and takes on the semblance of a battle of knights, their lances, horses, et al., often against a scattering of star-like flecks until finally the silhouette of the tower reappears as if much closer, certainly thicker and straight-sided. The film finishes as textures which tend to suggest an entrance into the textured walls of the tower, textures and stars intermingled with what may well seem chain-mail as well."- -Canyon Cinema catalog, http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/ film/?i=3501; Film microfilm reel. Englewood, Colo. : Western CINE, [2002]. 1 film reel (3 min.) : si., col. ; 16 mm.; PFA 1604-01-16824. D0447 donation 2015/07/31 CBPF; PFA 1604-01-16824. CONDITION NOTE: Inspected 2015/08/05 cv; very good; very light wear.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE