Saturday 28 August 2010

Window Water Baby Moving (1962) by Stan Brakhage - (10/10)

Probably the purest and one of the most powerful movies that I have seen so far. It manages to convey all emotions through editing, etc. making it a pure movie in the sense that it somehow manages to just convey pure emotions. It conveys the ecstasy of childbirth through the father’s eyes with men originally being excluded from the process. It is very loving, poetic and beautiful. Given the subject matter it could have been disturbing and voyeuristic but it is none of those things, it is pure love, beauty and ecstasy. It is a love poem more than anything from a man to his firstborn and the mother of his child.

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