Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle
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Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle

1959
Short Film
6m
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. A man enters a room, a woman smiles. He sits, another man sits and smokes. The cat stretches. There are close-ups of each. The light is dim; a filter accentuates red. A bare foot stands on a satin sheet. A woman disrobes. She pets the cat.

Cat's Cradle

1959
Short Film
6m
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Avg Percentile 41.63% from 147 total ratings

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Rated 16 Mar 2007
55
5th
Not very visually interesting if you ask me. When the montage work is really fast it becomes compelling but otherwise boring.
Rated 06 Feb 2023
40
8th
I can respect Brakhage's whole thing he had going on, I enjoy the images and the colour tint. But I don't know, I watched this and got burnt out by the quick editing and the repetitive imagery. It doesn't even go on long, this one just didn't really do it for me.
Rated 16 Aug 2015
65
41st
Moments of languid relaxation (in fact, maybe just one big impossible moment) examined obsessively and disjointedly.
Rated 09 Nov 2014
3
30th
interesting red-tinted aesthetic, and a cat. apparently my twentieth brakhage. this is what i get for trying to watch as many from the criterion collection as possible, i suppose.
Rated 25 Jun 2013
3
38th
Worst Vonnegut adaptation ever. But nah it's pretty interesting if only for its hyperkinetic editing and snatches of memorable imagery.
Rated 17 Apr 2013
80
68th
Fascinating and bizarre. Like seeing the world from the cat's perspective (a few third person shots thrown in for good measure), then chopping the footage up like mad in a manner that would make Eisenstein proud. The red tint (which also makes the film feel really warm) and crazy editing makes everything seem kind of alien, and slowly you find yourself adjusting to seeing things this way.
Rated 06 Sep 2011
91
93rd
The chaotic editing and nostalgic colours and recurring images and abrasive effects turn this abstract piece of work into a unworldly moving event.
Rated 14 Jun 2010
73
36th
It got a little old but I still rather liked it for it's strange somewhat sinister visual style.
Rated 29 May 2010
43
5th
Another one of those "Stan's home movies" that I just don't find that interesting, no matter how he edits it, or what kind of justification he conjures for it.
Rated 02 Dec 2009
80
68th
Another strange, fascinating little movie from Brakhage. All that fast cutting must have been an incredible bitch in 1959
Rated 07 Mar 2009
15
9th
Thanks, change my life.

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