The Way to Shadow Garden

1954
10m

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This way madness - or experimental filmmaking - lies. A solitary man in coat and tie enters an apartment that may be a converted garage. It's midnight. He appears agitated and distraught. He... Read allThis way madness - or experimental filmmaking - lies. A solitary man in coat and tie enters an apartment that may be a converted garage. It's midnight. He appears agitated and distraught. He throws a glass of water in his face and laughs. He takes off the coat and tie. His moods ... Read allThis way madness - or experimental filmmaking - lies. A solitary man in coat and tie enters an apartment that may be a converted garage. It's midnight. He appears agitated and distraught. He throws a glass of water in his face and laughs. He takes off the coat and tie. His moods swing. He stares at a light bulb. He removes his shirt. He lights a cigarette. He looks at... Read all

Director
- Stan Brakhage
Star
- Walter Newcomb

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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Director
- Stan Brakhage
Star
- Walter Newcomb

See production info at IMDbPro

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Meshes at Midnight

I wasn't aware legendary experimental film maker Stan Brakahage once lived in the same apartment as Maya Deren when I viewed this Meshes in the Afternoon knock-off. The influence was clear but the violence more than implied as Brakhage began to move away from the ambiguous narrative of his first film Interim into the more nebulous and experimental field that would bring the art form to a place it had never been before. It's a heavy handed, brutish work that defies interpretation and while I find it pretentious and abrasive for the most part the sublime and powerful transition late in the film gives this viewer the feeling it is Brakhage's response to the paranoia surrounding the nuclear threat of the 50s. Only Stan knows for sure.