Caswallon Trilogy (1986, 10 mins, Color): "At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain, 'Caswallon the Headhunter.' I contributed a hand painted film-loop (Fireloop, sound by Joel Haertling), as part of the special effects, as well as making two films during rehearsals: (1) the first dance film I've made, Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander and (2) a Sunday Associates production, The Aerodyne (Webster: 'heavier-than-air aircraft that derives its lift in flight from forces resulting from its motion through air')-the latter two films silent." (Stan Brakhage) Loud Visual Noises (1986, 2 min, 30 sec, Color): "This is a 'companion piece' to the similarly hand-painted Fireloop (of Caswallon Trilogy) and is dedicated to the filmmaker Paul Lundahl who supplied the title which prompted the film." (S.B.) The Loom (1986, 50 mins, Color): "A multiple-superimposition hand-painted visual symphony of animal life on earth. The Loom might be compared to musical quartet-form (as there are almost always four superimposed pictures); but the complexity of texture, multiplicity of tone, and the variety of inter-related rhythm, suggest symphonic dimensions. The film is very much inspired by Georges Méliès: the animals exist (in Jane's enclosure) as on a stage, their inter-relationships edited to the disciplines of dance, so therefore one might say this hardly represents 'animal life on earth'; but I would argue that this work at least epitomizes theatrical Nature, magical Creature, and is the outside limit, to date, of my art in that regard." (S.B.)