Dog Star Man

US 1961-1964. D: Stan Brakhage. 16mm, colour, silent, 51 min. Print: LUX. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 30 March 2008. PART 1. The accelerated motion of the clouds over Colorado. Planets, fog, clouds, the forest, water, snow, crystals, the corona, man and dog climbing the mountain slope, Sisyphus. PART 2. Abstract flashes, a baby, broken images, crystals, red lava. PART 3. Double exposure, a pregnant woman, the reality of the flesh. PART 4. The distorting lens, strong movement, a mosaic of the Madonna, outbursts of the Sun, giving birth, milk from the nipple, the clouds, shooting stars.