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Year
1991
Runtime
10 min.
Director
Stan Brakhage
Genre
Short
Rating *
6.1
Votes *
474
Checks
1,040
Favs
21
Dislikes
58
Favs/checks
2.0% (1:50)
Favs/dislikes
1:3
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    djgray88

    quote:
    'Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (1991)' was described as follows by its creator: "The primary "Molten Horror" is TV - though there are other horrors metaphored in the film. Four superimposed rolls of hand-painted and bi-packed television negative imagery are edited so as to approximate the hypnagogic process whereby the optic nerves resist grotesque infusions of luminescent light." Before you all scramble for a dictionary, the word "hypnagogic" means "of or pertaining to drowsiness." With this in mind, the film does do a fair job of recreating those hazy seconds before one falls asleep before a television, an indistinct garble of flickering lights and shadows, their incomprehensibility an open invitation to surrender to one's fatigue.


    ~Ackstasis, IMDb
    12 years 7 months ago
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    djgray88

    The youtube compression really destroys any potential effect this short should have. 12 years 7 months ago
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  1. This movie ranks #221 in The Criterion Collection
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