Film

Elementary Phrases

1994 · 33m · Animation

IMDb

7.5

Colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two began with strips of film Brakhage had painted on by hand, photographing them frame by frame with Solomon’s optical printer. They often printed two strips of film together, some of them containing images taken by Solomon, then chose from the images what Brakhage says “seemed to us natural phrases,” which Brakhage arranged into the final form. The result is a 40-minute silent film in which occasional hints of photographic images sometimes seem to peek through largely abstract shapes.

• Stan BrakhageDirector
• Phil SolomonDirector

Release date

January 1, 1994

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

33m

Genres

Animation