Originally a student of the abstract expressionist painters, Stan Brakhage has steadily completed over 200 films in a forty year period. Considered a master in avant-garde circles, his theory of representing \"Closed-eye vision\" in film has led him to th

Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic reflection on the theme of paradise lost. Some fifty persons illustrate the planet's convulsions and the world's vacillations. Trying to communicate, to commune with the invisible, they cry out, sing out, give out

After working with Lotte Rieniger on her cut-out animation, Bartosch went on to create this poetic, tragic allegory. Animated through paper cut-outs, the film concerns \'The Idea\', represented by a young woman, who tries to spread her artist-creator\'s m

From the man revered as \'the artist-alchemist of celluloid\', this is an amazing marriage of sound and image. The characters, stuck in an infernal eternity take a staircase that leads to a final luminous irradiation.