Interpolations I-V

"The full 35-millimeter frame allows for more detail and diversity than Brakhage's customary narrower gauges. In the first section, multicolored blobs contrast with fuzzy photographed lights; in the third, flickering specks become hundreds of tiny rods and later cracks in paint. Rhythmic complexity has long been a characteristic of Brakhage's work, but the series takes polyphony to new heights by creating different movements in different portions of the frame; there's a sense of shapes being generated and reabsorbed in a cosmic vision of eternal change." -- Fred Camper, Chicago Reader. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

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Portrait of Jason

Portrait of Jason

1967

Scared Straight!

Scared Straight!

1978

With the Marines at Tarawa

With the Marines at Tarawa

1944

By the Sea

By the Sea

1963

Black Vision

Black Vision

1965

The Survivors

The Survivors

1979

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona

1928

Wilson

Wilson

1944

Always for Pleasure

Always for Pleasure

1978

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

1980

Running Around Like a Chicken With Its Head Cut Off

Running Around Like a Chicken With Its Head Cut Off

1960

Movies Are Adventure

1948

This Theatre and You

1948

Tuesday in November

Tuesday in November

1945

The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk

The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk

1951

Wild River

Wild River

1960

Two Down and One to Go

Two Down and One to Go

1945

Along the Moonbeam Trail

1920

How to Bridge a Gorge

1942

History Brought to Life

1950