The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981) by Stan Brakhage
Thursday, May 11, 1989, 8:00 pm
STAN BRAKHAGE: IN REFLECTION
A program spanning 32 years of work by one of America’s foremost creative filmmakers. Nightcats (1956) is an early play of light and shadows in the forms of cats in the night; Fire of Waters (1965) is a rare sound film inspired by the poet Robert Kelly; Nightmare Series (1978) are “four films so related to each other as to be an equivalent to that frightful dreaming which makes Wake of the following day, so that it be spent mourning the events of the night” (S.B.); The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981) “an homage to (but also an argument with) Bosch”; I…Dreaming (1988, premiere) a new sound film which “envisions a re-awakening of such senses-of-love as children know… and it posits the psychology of waiting”; and Star Garden (1974).