| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (10 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Filmmakers Showcase in 1953. |
| Summary |
16mm 1.37.1 color sound, 9:27 minutes; acted & recited by Anaïs Nin from Nin's_House of Incest;_ production, photography Ian Hugo; abstract color effects Len Lye, Ian Hugo; electronic music by Louis & Bebe Barron. "I remember my first birth in water," reads Anaïs Nin in her husband Ian Hugo's aquatic fantasy formed of "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages." The mix of charged language and stunning abstract imagery and music moves the viewers towards - to paraphrase Marianne Moore - "the last continent within our selves." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Experimental films.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Education films.
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| Added Author |
Nin, Anaïs, film director.
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Hugo, Ian, film director.
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Lye, Len, film director.
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Filmmakers Showcase (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
14917385 Kanopy |
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