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Window Water Baby Moving (1959)

Window Water Baby Moving poster
Directed by
Stan Brakhage
Genre
documentary film, experimental film
Country
United States
Runtime
13 min
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 73 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Stan Brakhage films his wife Jane giving birth to their first child. The camera captures the moment in close, direct detail.

intimaterawunflinchingvisceralexperimentalpersonalquietnatural

What happens

Window Water Baby Moving is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, filmed in November 1958 and released in 1959. The film documents the birth of the director's first child, his daughter Myrrena, by his then-wife Jane Brakhage, later known as Jane Wodening. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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