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...Reel Five

  • 1999
  • 12m
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5.5/10
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I Take These Truths (1994)
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An experimental film by Stan Brakhage combining flashing lights and colors which are especially dark in the beginning and bright at the end.An experimental film by Stan Brakhage combining flashing lights and colors which are especially dark in the beginning and bright at the end.An experimental film by Stan Brakhage combining flashing lights and colors which are especially dark in the beginning and bright at the end.

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    • Stan Brakhage
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    • Director
      • Stan Brakhage
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    • Trivia
      This film is included on "By Brakhage: an Anthology", which is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #184.
    • Connections
      Follows ...Reel Four (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Flocking
      by James Tenney

      performed by Gertrud Schneider and Tomas Bächli

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    2/10
    Dancing in the Dark
    Stan Brakhage's pursuit of "Birth, death, sex, the search for God" might well be encapsulated in the first two and a half minutes of Reel Five where it presents a black screen along with a creeping music score to get you through these first moments to let you know you are looking at something. He may not be far from the truth since all those topics at one time or another has left us in the dark but Reel Five is inexorably overlong at fifteen minutes and while the film marks the return of composer James Tenney, who served Brakhage's inaugural film effort Interim so well, simply adds to the tedium here with some annoying pizzicato mixed into Brakhages same old same old but the damage has already been done in the first three minutes. I saw no sign of God (or sex) in this work but a more studied person might. This Reel has no hook.
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    • Release date
      • September 4, 1999 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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      • English
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      • Dot-Dot-Dot Reel Five
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