Stan Brakhage – Creation (1979)

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… almost like the Earth itself – the green ice covered rocks, the slicing feeling, the compressive feeling of the glaciers. The whole time I was watching I kept thinking that you were a master of the north, the arctic landscape – the red flowers in the dusky light, the deep blue light, the tall trees with running mists, and Jane looking… The ice, the water, the moss, the golden light. A visual symphony… – Hollis Melton

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“I moved back to a more commonly accepted way of seeing things, to some extent, in making Creation. Because creation is the greatest given, I mean, this is the opposite kind of making from Roman Numeral Series I (1979), because it resides somehow in the greatest given. And I had ideas about that when I had the chance to go to Alaska.”

“I knew that I’d call it Creation if I could really make it live up to that term because it’s also about the act of making in a way. It’s close to the way I feel and think when I’m feeling the most creative, and I think, frankly, this is a fulcrum of creation on Earth as we know it. I’m impressed that when you put ice under the kind of pressure it’s in under these glaciers, you squeeze out pure droplets of DNA. And one can’t see that as you look around at this water that’s so cold it could kill you by shock if you fall into it. But it’s teeming with life. It’s green with algae, plankton, and so on. And it’s a favourite feeding ground for whales, seals, etc. So I think this idea of a warm soup out of which crawled some form of life is maybe not the correct one – that it came from ice.”

– Stan Brakhage, 1980 – Screening Room

Stan Brakhage - 1979 - Creation.mkv

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