The Process

The Process

1972
Short Film
14m
With The Process Brakhage again addresses the interaction of internal and external sources of imagery, but in this case, as the sole subject of the film. Here, slightly displaced positive and negative versions of the same image create a feeling of insubstantiality. And movements, such as a door being opened or closed, seem to slide across the plane of the screen, defying our normal sense of perspective and evoking, instead, brushes of light across a visual field of mind.
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The Process

1972
Short Film
14m
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Rated 09 Mar 2011
67
19th
Some of the stuff I made up trying to decipher the images was cool, the actual content not so much, but it was ok.
Rated 28 Oct 2015
70
51st
Gloomy and hypnotic. As with many of these, the gut reaction the aesthetics inspire is much more impressive than the highfalutin reasons Brakhage had for making the film; hearing his own and scholars' takes on his work makes their content a little less arbitrary but this one is so much better just to feel than to analyze.
Rated 24 Aug 2014
72
43rd
Rather cool little abstract short. The murky, down-beat film footage is contrasted well with the artificial colours, lending this short something of a delightful power and a pleasing beauty.
Rated 05 Jun 2010
44
6th
One of those films where the concept is more interesting on paper than in execution (a common pitfall of experimental cinema).
Rated 18 Sep 2021
20
2nd
Probably not the best choice to start a Brakhage virgin’s exploration of his oeuvre, but I decided to randomly pick things from his list here on Criticker and try to find them online. I can’t for the life of me figure out the meaning to his madness in this one. An “I’ll never get those minutes of my life back” waste of time.

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