Moilsome Toilsome

Overview

This is a photographed filmic searching-for-whales, the camerawork and editing attempting to approximate something of the rubbing up against water of the whale, of the surface foam and the hard coils of water through which it swims, of the gray-greens and blacks of its environment. And then suddenly there is the vision of many whales rolling, breeching, twisting and turning in various play with eachother, a mother and baby slapping fins together, soforth. This film is about the identification with the world of the whale and the experience of the seeing, then (at the distance of being human), many killer whales in glimpses of our given sights of them.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 16, 1999

Original language

English

Director

Stan Brakhage

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0277900