From: Mark Toscano (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 01:09:07 PDT
Actually, only Eye Myth is in 35mm. Eye Myth Educational is 16mm only.
The original for Eye Myth is hand-painted (including some embedded moth wings) 35mm b/w found footage, but was apparently not printed in 35mm by Stan until at least the late '70s, when an internegative was struck. Until then it was available only in reduced 16mm form. In the course of this reduction, Stan got to experimenting with different ways of working with the footage, so the complete 9-second piece found its way into at least three finished films - Eye Myth, Eye Myth Educational, and The Horseman, the Woman and the Moth.
The original for Eye Myth Educational is essentially a 16mm reversal (Anscochrome) reduction of the 35mm original, optically printed a few different ways to stretch out the original footage, hence the 'educational' tag implying that one can study the footage more in this version. The structure of Eye Myth Educational is as follows:
-hand-scratched "Eye Myth" title
-original 'Eye Myth' film (1:1)
-'by Brakhage' title
-'Eye Myth' stretch-printed 4:1
-'Eye Myth' stretch-printed 3:1
-'Eye Myth' stretch-printed 2:1
-original 'Eye Myth' film (1:1)
-'by Brakhage' title
The Horseman, the Woman and the Moth is a very elaborate articulation of the original Eye Myth footage, printed in many ways on several color and b/w stocks, with many different effects, in a very complex A/B-roll edit.
Mark T
--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Marilyn Brakhage <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Marilyn Brakhage <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] Brakhage films in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 8:43 PM
> "Eye Myth Educational," "The Garden
> of Earthly Delights," "Hell Spit Flexion," "Nightmusic,"
> "The Dante Quartet," "Rage Net," "Interpolations," "Night
> Mulch and Very," and "Chinese Series."
>
> MB
>
> On Thursday, April 2, 2009, at 07:00 PM, Myron Ort wrote:
>
> > On Apr 2, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Fred Camper wrote:
> >
> >> STAN BRAKHAGE: ADVENTURE IN PERCEPTION
> >> Six programs of films from all of Brakhage's
> career in Rio de Janeiro,
> >> Brazil, curated and introduced by Fred Camper,
> April 7 to April 12 2009
> >>
> >> These are all being shown in 16mm prints.
> >>
> >
> > I am curious, how many (and which) films from
> the complete oeuvre are capable of being shown in 35mm?
> >
> > Myron Ort
> >
> >
> >
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