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Deus Ex (1971)
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Summary: I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUS EX in West Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh; but I was especially inspired by the memory of one incident in an Emergency Room of SF's Mission District: while waiting for medical help, I had held myself together by reading an April-May 1965 issue of "Poetry Magazine"; and the following lines from Charles Olson's "Cole's Island" had especially centered the experience, "touchstone" of DEUS EX.... (Stan Brakhage)
Genre: Short
Country: USA
Directed By: Stan Brakhage
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This one is, as far as I can tell, shot entirely from inside a hospital. Unsettling images, sometimes all the more so because they are obscured in some manner: out of focus, an object blocking the view, a quick glimpse of something mysterious. In the film's "climax", we get a brief, pacifying glance out a window, and then plunged into a whirlwind nightmare montage of surgery, sometimes in clear gory detail, sometimes in mere impressions. A little long, perhaps, but very engaging.
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