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The Birds of Paradise

USA 1999, 16mm, col, silent, 3:00 min

realized by:
Stan Brakhage

notes:
Also credited as 1:30 min.

available copies:
Canyon Cinema Inc.:
available for rent
London Filmmakers Coop:
available for rent

synopsis: Canyon Cinema online catalog 2004
This is a hand-painted work which involves a variety of colors applied within gouged and scratched shapes which approximate both swift shifts of bird-shape (legs, beaks and feather-spreads especially) and the Bird of Paradise flower-form as well, the former tending to metamorphize into the latter across the course of the work.


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