I Take These Truths

I Take These Truths

1995
18m
5.2

5.2/10

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Overview

This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should constitute a purely visual "self-evident" (as prompted by the title). Each frame is printed twice, so that its effective speed (at 24fps) is 12 frames per second. A variety of organic and crystalline painted shapes (painted on clear leader, thus as if brilliantly back-lit in a blazing space of light) are interspersed with very dark (black leader) passages as if etched with scratches of light and stained radiances. There are also some straight, multi-colored, bars which move, diagonally from one side of the film frame to the other. All these "themes" finally give way to clear thick gelatinous effects which resolve themselves in a long passage of hieroglyphic white shapes in a black field, ending on a brief spate of variable coloration.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
No Language

Quick Facts

Release Date October 13, 1995
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0113370

Cast

Key Crew

Stan Brakhage
Director