Screening
On Tuesday, April 7th, at 7pm at The Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor), Carter Haskins presents a program of rarely-screened Stan Brakhage titles from the late 1970s, all projected on 16mm.
These four films are just a small sampling of the Coop’s vast Brakhage collection. Many of their Brakhage prints are rarely screened, and they aren’t available anywhere digitally. This screening series highlights the best of this underseen trove of Brakhage’s films.
The warm childhood imagery of Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects foreshadows the dark suburban core of Nightmare Series. Tragoedia and Sluice act as an extended interlude between the two, the former a “goat-song” and the latter a silver-streaked poem. A striking sunset sequence in Nightmare Series predates Tommy Lee Wallace's Halloween III but postdates David Brooks’ Carolyn and Me: Part Two.
—Carter Haskins