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Movie poster: Thigh Line Lyre Triangular (1961)
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Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

1961 · 5 min Documentary
5.2 / 10 · TMDB

Only at a crisis do I see both the scene as I've been trained to see it ( that is, with Renaissance perspective, three-dimensional logic–colors as we've been trained to call a color a color, as so forth) and patterns that move straight out from the inside of the mind through the optic nerves... spots before my eyes, so to speak... and it's very intensive, disturbing, but joyful experience. I've seen that every time a child was born... Now none of that was in WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING; and I wanted a childbirth film which expressed all of my seeing at such a time.

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Year 1961
Country United States of America
Genre Documentary
Director Stan Brakhage
Runtime 5 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.2/10 (20 votes)

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Brakhage constructs the film as a direct sensory experience, relying on light refraction, film overlays, and editing that follows the rhythm of perception rather than narrative. He explores the very act of seeing at its most intense, where the physiological and the psychic become one.

What lingers after viewing is not a story, but the visceral memory of a visual vortex where birth is a state of consciousness, not an event. It’s an encounter with the raw source of visual thought. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Stan Brakhage

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