We begin our four-night series of Stan Brakhage's recent silent works with three selections from his 19-part Arabic Numeral Series. "I wanted to make a series of films not limited by the language in the title....So far as I can tell, they defy verbal interpretation and would, thus, seem to be closer to Music than any previous work given me to do..."-S.B. "Some critics have described (these) later films as abstract. Mr. Brakhage disagrees. `It's more concrete, in a philosophical sense, than what I see when I open my eyes and look out on a scene, because that's something the mind puts together. The physical sparking of optic nerves is a direct message. Children love it. They wait for the sandman to spread some of this color across their closed eyes before they fall asleep.'"-William Grimes, New York Times, 1994 Arabic 3 (1980, 11 mins). Arabic 0 + 10 (1981, 32 mins). Arabic 12 (1981, 27 mins).