UNGLASSED WINDOWS CAST A TERRIBLE REFLECTION
EUTERPE
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28m
"The second film by Stan Brakhage [starring Lawrence Jordan and a handful of other actors] originally featured original music composed by James Tenney. The score was never recorded. In its place, 'Mr. Tenney has selected [Béla] Bartok's SECOND PIANO CONCERTO as a suitable background for the film,' as Brakhage indicated. A 33rpm Vox LP record was played at the Living Theater on 22-February-1955 and was performed together again on 8-March-1955 when he returned to Dartmouth College." — Bruce Posner
"Stan Brakhage's film-work is a searchlight into the hidden, unspoken, elusive drama of relations among men and women." — Parker Tyler
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