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
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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