Divertimento

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Overview

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.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: January 1, 1997
Original language: English
Countries: United States of America
Director: Stan Brakhage
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0281812