The Mammals of Victoria

The Mammals of Victoria (1994), the second of the Vancouver Island films, is an elemental study in the energies of adolescence--another example of that particular strand in Brakhage's work (as is Boulder Blues and Pearls And . . .) in which he would combine photographic and painted imagery, assuredly weaving together the shimmering fragility of worldly phenomena and visual experience with both concrete and metaphorical representations of an interior life.