The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971) - Stan Brakhage

Runtime: 32 min Language: No audio Country: USA Color: Color Director: Stan Brakhage Description: Now obviously, this film may sound silly. The film itself is basically a 40 minute film without narrative or opinion. It is simply a film depicting autopsy on dead bodies. At first this sounds gross and disgusting, but in reality, the skin of dead bodies are really nothing much other than dirt, or at least soon to be. The idea of this being gross can be pulled out of the fact that these bodies were once alive. Yes, we see images of the insides of their bodies. We see their brains and skull. We see the cuts being placed on their skin and then being opened to reveal a massive doorway to intestines, bone, blood,liver, veins, and other things. We do not know what kinds of things that these bodies did when they were alive and moving. We are not even shown what their facial features are like really. We just see their bodies being opened and examined. Stan Brakhage, an experimental filmmaker, doesn't consider that his audience may want to know these things. Or maybe he does but is not interested enough to show us. This way, we can leave our concerns behind and hope to get something out of these gruesome things. We may or may not, but the idea of this sort of meaning is enough to watch it more than once, if not to see if we react or see something differently.

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tomjoadpb (2009-11-24)

this is a profound film. not light fare, not to look at while flipping channels.

wstn (2011-07-19)

I'm so glad to find this work of Brakhage here (!)
I've uploaded it elsewhere just in case this goes dead..
http://ifile.it/ez1wtsm

IghostI (2012-07-13)

Thank you for uploading! :)