This, painted in the hospital while recovering from cancer surgery in 1996, is - it seems to me - very related to De Kooning's Alzheimer's paintings. The mind, here, is seeking a "blank" and/or holding fast to tendrils of meaning which are stripped so bare as to be purely reflective of flesh tissue and irregular strands of cells. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Stan Brakhage
Director
At Eternity's Gate69%
The Alphabet64%
Cutie and the Boxer69%
Kingdom Hospital64%
Henry Poole Is Here59%
It's Such a Beautiful Day79%
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon60%
The Eyes of Orson Welles70%
Living in Oblivion71%
Blackbird67%
Lust for Life71%
Age of Consent59%
County Hospital67%
50/5071%
Spellbound73%
Safe House61%
A Day's Pleasure62%
The Woman on the Beach61%
The Art of the Steal69%
Alive Inside75%
