STAN BRAKHAGE, PHILIP CORNER, DAÏCHI SAÏTO, MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN

"The qualities of recorded light, faithful to the memories we have of them…"
Stan Brakhage

The films in this session address the issue of musical improvisation and collaboration in its relationship with cinema, based on work by two composers whose roots are linked the period of the Judson Dance Theatre: Malcolm Goldstein and Philip Corner - whose music was used in films by Daïchi Saïto and Stan Brakhage.

All That Rises is a work of visual music that seeks equivalence between the specific force of the images and Malcolm Goldstein’s music. Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis explores perceptions based on images of a forest of plane trees in Canada, in the director’s home town, using a syntactic structure based on patterns, variations and repetitions, in counterpoint to a violin improvisation by Malcolm Goldstein.

Passage Through: A Ritual is one of Stan Brakhage’s most enigmatic films and also one of the few sound films directed by him. Motivated by dialogue with a composition by Philip Corner that was improvised on the basis of a work by François Couperin (inspired upon another film by Brakhage, The Riddle of Lumen), Brakhage created a complex structural relationship with sound, interlaced with the deep blackness of the image, interrupted by rare bursts of images and light.

These are films about intervals and passage – between images, between spaces opened by silence, between light and its absence.

PROGRAMME

All That Rises by Daïchi Saïto, 2007, 16mm, sound, colour, 7’
Music: Malcolm Goldstein

The Riddle of Lumen by Stan Brakhage, 1972, 16mm, silent, colour, 14’

Passage Through: A Ritual by Stan Brakhage, 1990, 16mm, sound, colour, 50’
Music: Philip Corner, Through the Mysterious Barricade, Lumen 1
(after François Couperin)

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis by Daïchi Saïto, 2009, 35mm, 10’
Music: Malcolm Goldstein, Hues of the Spectrum

PRICES

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