Anticipation of the Night (1958)

Directed by

Stan Brakhage

Genre

experimental film

Country

United States

Runtime

42 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man moves through his day and night in a series of fragmented, poetic images. The film uses light and shadow to suggest inner emotional states without a clear story.

dreamlikemeditativeintrospectivefragmentedlyricalabstractcontemplativeatmospheric

What happens

Anticipation of the Night is a 1958 American avant-garde film directed by Stan Brakhage. It was a breakthrough in the development of the lyrical style Brakhage used in his later films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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