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The Graduates — Hannah Peterson [Tribeca '23 Review] | In Review Online
Hannah Peterson’s directorial debut, The Graduates, begins a year after the end of the “before,” a definitive “conclusion of youth” event that’s alluded to, but never described in much detail. Genevieve (Mina Sundwall) is drifting through her senior year, grating against time as it flows toward the one-year mark of her boyfriend Tyler’s death, trying to find hope in a future that feels so foreclosed by the past.
Stan Brakhage: The Camera Eye
Out of print for more than 40 years, Stan Brakhage’s hugely influential Metaphors on Vision (1963) was recently republished by Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry. Celebrating the arrival of this new, definitive edition of Metaphors on Vision, the Walker will present a special screening of Brakhage’s work—selected by Ed Halter of Light Industry from our Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection—to explore the artist’s visionary manifesto and youthful meditations on cinema.
Metaphors on Vision
To coincide with the republication by Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry of Stan Brakhage’s Metaphors on Vision, out of print for nearly forty years, BOMB Daily presents the following excerpt—a letter from Brakhage to the poet Robert Kelly describing his work on the groundbreaking film Mothlight, which Brakhage made without a camera, instead affixing bits of material directly to film strips. The notes at the end are provided by avant-garde film scholar P.
Metaphors on Vision by Stan Brakhage - BOMB Magazine
Filmstrips from Stan Brakhage’s Mothlight (1963), courtesy the Estate of Stan Brakhage and fredcamper.com.
Metaphors On Vision Quotes
“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be?
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