Carl E. Brown Movies

  • 1991
    To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror

    To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror

    To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror

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    To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film...

    To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror
  • 1993
    Misery Loves Company

    Misery Loves Company

    Misery Loves Company

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    Cindy was asleep under a maple tree/ Rolled over and said to me/ I dreamt of Air Cries/ I turned over, we were lying on the the/ dry cracked mud of a...

    Misery Loves Company
  • 1993
    The Red Thread

    The Red Thread

    The Red Thread

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    Second part of Brown's Air Cries 'Empty Water' trilogy.

    The Red Thread
  • 2007
    Quiet Chaos of Desire

    Quiet Chaos of Desire

    Quiet Chaos of Desire

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    "A good friend of mine died at 9:10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2007... my film piece is called "Quiet Chaos of Desire" it comes out of my experience in...

    Quiet Chaos of Desire
  • 2004
    Triage

    Triage

    Triage

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    A dual-projection film where each director made 30 minutes of film without knowledge of what the other was making. Snow's side is a visual...

    Triage
  • 2009
    Memory Fade

    Memory Fade

    Memory Fade

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    "The images of “Memory Fade” are not lost… they are spectral and the dance steps repeated over and over in time fights the Fade...

    Memory Fade
  • 1982
    Urban Fire

    Urban Fire

    Urban Fire

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    A child is given birth in the womb of its dead mother. Child’s eyes perceive the death of a city. The last birth combined with the fire and...

    Urban Fire
  • 2006
    Blue Monet

    Blue Monet

    Blue Monet

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    Monet is an artist that I have always greatly admired. His use of colour through water and sky to convey his emotional state has had a great...

    Blue Monet
  • 2010
    Carl Brown

    Carl Brown

    Carl Brown

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    A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker. Brown speaks candidly, is shown in a...

    Carl Brown
  • 1989
    Cloister

    Cloister

    Cloister

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    As the wheel turns, the religion of the body moves to and through the physical into the psychological. We see the feared, all is moved. There is a...

    Cloister
  • 1993
    Air Cries 'Empty Water'

    Air Cries 'Empty Water'

    Air Cries 'Empty Water'

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    These images are oxidized residues, fixed by light and chemical elements, of living organisms. No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue...

    Air Cries 'Empty Water'
  • 2003
    neige noire

    neige noire

    neige noire

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    "Carl Brown makes celluloid dance. [His] new film work will burn colours so deeply into your brain, you'll be watching a light show inside your...

    neige noire
  • 2003
    L’Invitation au Voyage

    L’Invitation au Voyage

    L’Invitation au Voyage

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    the fishing boats are out in the water the fish are caught. brought into shore the men haul the catch off the boat. the boat once again goes out to...

    L’Invitation au Voyage
  • 1999
    Fine Pain

    Fine Pain

    Fine Pain

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    "This two-screen dual projector film extends Brown's use of chemically tortured celluloid to the breaking point. A collaboration with his long-time...

    Fine Pain
  • 1994
    Brownsnow

    Brownsnow

    Brownsnow

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    "'Brownsnow' presents a fascinating combination of two artistic visions: Carl Brown's and Michael Snow's. The form of this expressionistic...

    Brownsnow
  • 1991
    Sheep

    Sheep

    Sheep

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    A man counting sheep as he sleeps. I have never seen sheep as I sleep. The sheep relax the man, he falls into a deep sleep. You are wide awake,...

    Sheep
  • 1989
    Drop

    Drop

    Drop

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    "'Drop' restages Newton's celebrated encounter with the heaviest and most voluptuous fruit of the vegetable kingdom. It tracks the eye's apple from...

    Drop
  • 1987
    Condensation of Sensation

    Condensation of Sensation

    Condensation of Sensation

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    "Condensation is an aggregation of moments that appear like crossroads or intersections. The moments when things happen to you. […] I...

    Condensation of Sensation
  • 1985
    Full Moon Darkness

    Full Moon Darkness

    Full Moon Darkness

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    A painful but enlightening film on the controversial subject of mental illness - or more particularly, the myth of mental illness. It is a...

    Full Moon Darkness
  • 1980
    Mine's Bedlam

    Mine's Bedlam

    Mine's Bedlam

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    Life is like a gigantic phonograph record fifty feet across. Or like one of those whirling discs at the old amusement park. You get on the disc and...

    Mine's Bedlam