Scenes From Under Childhood: Section Part 2 (1969) by Stan Brakhage
Thursday, January 21, 1982, 8:00 pm
Brakhage: The Book of the Film
In 1968 Brakhage began a project which was the visual reconstruction of his own childhood by way of a close examination of his children. This was the beginning of a cycle of films known as The Book of Film which forms his autobiography in film now over seven hours long. We have continued to show the various parts as they have appeared. This program consists of the first two sections and one of the most recently completed sections:
Scenes From Under Childhood #1 & II (1967-69) 65 min. – “A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child—- a shattering of the ‘myths of childhood’ through a revelation of the extremes by their sentimental remembering of it…” —SB
Sincerity IV (1980) 40 min. – “…seems rooted in the earliest tradition of my work, Psycho-Drama, as well as in the most recent, Imagnostic, directions taken. It is remembrance as well as thought which fashions it in lonely hotel rooms, sincere return of the mind to that which is loved, ephemeral faces of children growing older, familiar objects interwoven with easy alien familiarity, the images of strangers in UNeasy identification, sexual posture and the lure of The Beloved as irreducible image.” —SB