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Genres: DramaSh
Starring: Jane Brakhage
Director(s): Stan Brakhage
Available Quality: Hi Def
Country: USA
Year: 1962
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
IMDB Rating: 6.9 out of 10 (562 votes)
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Images of our Earth appear, woods, a part of a body, a nude woman perhaps giving birth. Imagery evokes movement across time.
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Visitors Review
(21 May 2012)
See the whole series - in a theater near you
I sat through the complete Dog Star Man (4+ hours) in a museum in 1974.I dozed off quite frequently, but only for a couple seconds at a time.There didn't seem to be much sense trying to think the movie through,so I just sort of let it happen. When the lights came on, I decidedthis much-heralded avant-garde film wasn't anything special, only alittle overlong.I had to walk a mile back home, and it was midnight. In the twentyminutes it took to make this journey, the entire film ran through myhead again, at lightning speed. I wasn't doing any drugs - yet thewhole street around me seemed shot through with flickering light andoverlapping images from this movie.Back around 1960, neurobiologists had begun speculating that the humanbrain actually remembers every sensation we experience. Brackhage seemsto have taken this seriously. Some of the images in DSM are only asingle frame; but despite the "24 frames per second" rule offilm-perception theory, one notes these single-frame images andremembers them anyway.The bad news is that this is probably an historical footnote. Thelikelihood of seeing DSM in a theatrical setting grows dimmer everyday. But there's absolutely no point of watching this in any videoformat whatsoever. In even the highest definition video format, a"frame" is constituted by overlapping runs of pixels in the process ofmoving from one image to the next. The presentation of a single-frameimage such as I have noted above is physically impossible in video.There are many other reasons why no video format could possible presentthis film adequately, but this is definitive. DSM works because lightreflected from a screen can imprint a single image, however fleeting,onto our neurons. Video cannot do this, I'm sorry.However, because Brakhage was a visual artist - not a dramatist, not astoryteller, but really the maker of paintings-in-motion - art museumswill likely preserve this film - as film - for future generations. Someof these have quite adequate theaters for film projection. If you canmake your way to one when this film is shown there, do so. Even if youhate it, you will not regret it. And you will certainly learn somethingnew about the universe.
cervovolante (21 May 2012)
74 challenging, rewarding, and fulfilling minutes
This review refers to the entire film DOG STAR MAN, the Prelude and thefour Parts, which I saw several hours ago in the cinema of the AustrianFilm Museum in Vienna.IMDb should condense the five separate units into ONE film item, sincethis is clearly how the filmmaker intended his work to be viewed. Icompose music and after about ten minutes it was clear to me that thiswork should be experienced and felt as VISUAL MUSIC, a symphony in fivemovements comparable in length to those of Bruckner or Mahler. Iwouldn't have any problem closing my eyes during a 74-minute-longsymphony and I had no problem turning off my ears as Stan Brakhage'sstunning silent images flooded the screen.The "visual composer" Brakhage showed himself to be a master in theincredible density of his phrases / images, in their imaginative andsuggestive juxtapositions, and in the creation of a clearly imaginedand personally experienced global form in five movements, whereby"themes" are introduced, developed, reintroduced and redeveloped in aconvincing and existentially rooted manner. And there were SO manymemorable images ... right now I'm recalling the man's vertical ascentat the end of Part One, and the introduction of the baby at thebeginning of Part Two. The often fluttering editing of the winterscenes in the Colorado Rockies was so sensually intense that I couldalmost SMELL the surroundings-- an incredible feat for a silent film.The rough spots in the editing were like ... the rough spots in life.I have seen several other films by Brakhage and admire hisexistentially demanding films abut birth and autopsy, but DOG STAR MANtops it all.My sincere posthumous thanks to Stan Brakhage for the 74 challenging,rewarding, and fulfilling minutes that I spent with this work.
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