Cat's Cradle (1959)
- Directed by
- Stan Brakhage
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 6 min
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 38 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Two couples interact with a cat in a series of fragmented domestic scenes. The film uses rapid editing and close-up imagery to suggest a mysterious connection between the people and the animal.
experimentalabstractdreamlikeintimatesymbolicdisorientingvisceralrhythmic
What happens
Cat's Cradle is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, produced in 1959. The film was described by Brakhage as "sexual witchcraft involving two couples and a 'medium' cat." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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