Stan Brakhage - Burial Path

A film by Stan Brakhage about the forgetfulness and death.
The opening image of a dead bird in a box and later images of a snowy path suggest that this film was occasioned by the burial of a bird.
Some flows of jarred motifs bank up in elliptical transformations in fleeting, ephemeral, unpredictable imagery.
Referred to as the third part of a trilogy, with 'Sirius Remembered' and 'The Dead', this film is a perfect 'visual thinking' of the death-at-work and one of the most amazing 'metaphors on vision' Brakhage has ever made.
from Criterion's By Brakhage An Anthology vol. 2

[@markpx]

A beautiful, sad little film. The out-of-focus imagery felt like a vision in retreat from the world, beautiful but also spooky, distant, lonely. This is the film of somebody finding solace in solitude and death, both comforting and cruel. Nature, bringing us light in darkness and darkness in light. As we ease back into the earth, become the earth, become the substance of earth's mystery, as we burn and turn to ash, our bodies rising up as smoke in knotty swirls, dissipated by a silent wind.

[@laurencegoldman4639]

Strikingly beautiful. Thanks for posting (and not adding music)

[@cenobyt3z766]

I think this is my favorite by Stan Brakhage.

[@QuranLion]

Why?

[@Brucebaillie]

Loving, lovely film. - bb

[@adamwatson2914]

Poor little Robin... My favourite bird.

[@lvlineareO.]

a glimpse of heaven here

[@stefanradivoyevitch2829]

Good except the ending was confusing with the fire. Better if it ended with the fade from the clouds after the burial. Life as a series of fleeting moments!

[@BruHunziker]

Did...did it go to hell?

[@GeneralArmorus]

that's the other way around then

[@cartel8616]

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