LEADER 00000ngm 2200445Ma 4500 001 43993956 005 20000506 TAPE oclc9991: 0182 007 mr ca--dmnartabkc199209 008 000710s1959 xxu040 mleng d 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 000710 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080528 Modid: XRF 033 0 1957---- 035 (PFA-FILM)244 035 GLADN50874398 040 CUY|eamim|cCUY 090 |b1616-01-4083 245 00 Anticipation of the night|h[motion picture] /|cby [Stan] Brakhage. 257 U.S. 260 [United States :|bStan Brakhage,|c1958] 300 1 reel of 1 (1436 ft.) (40 min.) :|bsi., col., 24 fps ; |c16 mm.|3triacetate print. 500 Jane Brakhage's camera credit supplied from an interview with Stan Brakhage by P. Adams Sitney, in which Brakhage states Jane filmed the scenes of his shadow. Cast credits supplied from: Stan Brakhage: a guide to references and resources / Gerald R. Barrett and Wendy Brabner. 500 Running time: 39:51. 500 No date on film; date supplied from: Stan Brakhage: a guide to references and resources. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 508 [Additional camera, Jane Brakhage]. 510 4 Barrett, Gerald R. and Wendy Brabner. Stan Brakhage: a guide to references and resources. Boston, MA.: G.K. Hall, 1983,|cp. 16-18, 49-50 510 4 Sitney, P. Adams. "Interview with Stan Brakhage," Film culture reader. New York: Praeger, 1970,|cp. 201-203 510 4 Sitney, P. Adams. Avant-garde film: a reader of theory and criticism. New York: New York University Press, 1978,|cp. xxvii-xxix 510 4 Kelman, Ken. "Perspective reperceived," Essential cinema. New York: Film Culture Non-Profit Inc.,|cp. 234-239 510 4 American Federation of Arts. A history of the American avant-garde cinema. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1976,|cp. 87, 95-97 511 0 [With: Stan Brakhage, Steven Subotnick, the Newcomb children]. 518 Filmed in 1957 in Denver, Colorado. 520 During the period when he made this film, Brakhage had been contemplating suicide. To work through his existential crisis, he made a series of films on the subject of death. This film is oblique in its ruminations. The viewer sees the shadow of a man (the filmmaker) at the beginning and end of the film, as if he has almost passed from the three- dimensional world into the void. The center sections of the film are scenes as viewed by Brakhage. Using the subjective camera, he is trying to see the world anew and in a detail he had previously ignored. Images of children playing on carnival rides at night represent a renewed childlike vision; close-ups of trees and dancing lights remind the viewer of the simple joys around us. However, Brakhage does not lose his feeling of anticipation of the night (death): the final scene is his shadow with a noose around his neck. 590 PFA 1616-01-4083. |aCONDITION NOTE: Inspected: 05 Sept 1992; faded; pink; vinegar; scatches; Poor condition: color has turned pink and faded; some scratches; smells of early vinegar syndrome CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2007/12/03; Good to fair condition; very light base scratches; emulsion close to pristine; color faded to pink /magenta 650 0 Suicide. 655 7 Features.|2mim 655 7 Personal/independent films.|2mim 690 U.S. films. 690 Death in films. 700 1 Brakhage, Stan. 700 1 Wodening, Jane,|d1936- 700 1 Subotnick, Steven. 935 GLADN50874398 946 PFA 1616-01-4083. Revised 2008/05/07 by pjs (945) 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140928 961 PFA 1616-01-4083.|bStored on 1600 ft. reel. 994 92|bCUY