Ascension begins by superimposing paintings that look like clouds over extremely close views of mottled paint, peculiarly intimate in their three-dimensionality. Juxtaposing images of transcendence with representations of what he liked to call the "mess" of life, Brakhage distances himself from both.
Stan Brakhage
Director
The Goldfinch71%
Dorian Gray60%
I'm Thinking of Ending Things65%
The Picture of Dorian Gray71%
2001: A Space Odyssey80%
The Art of Getting By65%
The World of Suzie Wong66%
Extinction60%
Turtles All the Way Down72%
Everybody’s Everything84%
Phantasm64%
The Double65%
Art School Confidential61%
Mission to Mars60%
The Human Stain60%
Chaos Walking65%
Lust for Life71%
Little Ashes58%
Infinite65%
Ender's Game65%
