Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

Thigh Line Lyre Triangular is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, released in 1961, which depicts the birth of the directors third child, Neowyn. The film, which involves painting and handscratching over photographic images, is more abstract than the directors earlier Window Water Baby Moving, which documented the birth of Brakhages firstborn, Myrrenna.

Only at a crisis do I see both the sense as Ive been trained to see it that is, with Renaissance perspective, threedimensional logic, colors as weve been trained to call a color a color, and so forth and patterns that move straight out from the inside of the mind through the optic nerves spots before my eyes, so to speak and its a very intensive, disturbing, but joyful experience. Ive seen that every time a child was born .... Now none of that was in WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING and I wanted a childbirth film which expressed all of my seeing at such a time.Like many Brakhage works, Thigh Line Lyre Triangular is a silent film. Unlike Window Water Baby Moving, it was photographed in a hospital. The camera films Jane Brakhages face and vulva from a lowangle shot near her feet. A layer of paint and deliberate scratches on the surface of the film render the birth itself almost unintelligible. Brakhage himself does not appear in the film, as he intended to centre the occasion in my own eyes. ........

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