Lovesong

Lovesong

2001
Short Film
11m
The film starts with thick, tactile clumps of paint, some of the most pronounced textural effects I've seen in my admittedly limited exposure to Brakhage's painting. The paint seems to be elevated off the film cells, deeply layered and creating a shaky, start/stop frame-by-frame flow. (seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com)
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Lovesong

2001
Short Film
11m
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Avg Percentile 52.87% from 82 total ratings

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Rated 15 Jun 2010
68
20th
Most of Brakhage's hand painted films I either like or don't entirely on gut reaction to the colours, but this one I actually get more out of. Unfortunately I don't like what I get out of it. It has a really gross and creepy vibe that induces a sense of decay and corruption.
Rated 21 Jul 2009
80
70th
Interesting how your brain starts doing all the work a little ways in, you start seeing glimpses of whats behind it and filling in the rest.
Rated 03 Dec 2009
80
68th
Brakhage says that this is a hand-painted representation of sex in the mind's eye. Hmmm. Perhaps the dirtier the mind you have, the more you will enjoy this. Further evidence of the theory that artists become obsessed with sex when they get old (cf. _Eyes Wide Shut_, Heinlein's novel _To Sail Beyond The Sunset_). Perhaps when I get old I will take a lot of cold showers, or just jump off a cliff. U.S. Social Security will have run dry by then anyway
Rated 30 May 2010
90
94th
"A hand-painted visualization of sex in the mind's eye". At first I was like "okay Stan, if you say so"... but after a while I started to see it. Whatever it is, it's damn purty. The hi-def presentation really enhances the tactile sensation of paint on film. I wanted to reach through the screen and hold it.
Rated 05 Dec 2010
50
23rd
A visualization of sex through paint and rapid imagery that perfectly works. The problem is that the length kills the film's magic.
Rated 11 May 2011
1
0th
PV.
Rated 16 Mar 2012
90
63rd
Brakhage called this "a hand-painted visualization of sex in the mind's eye", and while there is something about the rhythms and shapes created by the hand-painted frames of the film that is suggestive of sex, this almost doesn't matter as this functions just as well as another of Brakhage's pieces of pure aesthetics.
Rated 13 Nov 2013
50
42nd
At first my guess was cave paintings or wax drip paintings. The sex interpetation is interesting... and yet, it tells you something if you like your speculations better than the actual short.
Rated 11 Aug 2014
65
24th
Mainly features one of Brakhage's techniques (extensively), and only brings in a few others towards the end. It's of to not much avail, apart from being a nicely-made, yet badly sped abstract short.
Rated 17 Nov 2014
5
70th
the longer this goes on, the more you can see bodies pop in and out of the screen in stunning, sticky, sexual colours. another one of those rare brakhage films that actually worked for me for some reason.
Rated 11 Sep 2015
35
19th
OK so I've now seen three Brakhage movies.
Rated 21 Feb 2016
11
58th
Star Rating: ★★★
Rated 19 May 2020
5
91st
The sheer tactility of the paint on the frame makes this an uncommonly lush work by Brakhage. Black, typically felt as an absence in his films, here actively wrestles with his characteristic splashes of color.

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