{"id":14873,"date":"2014-02-08T02:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T02:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14873"},"modified":"2024-04-09T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:08:08","slug":"thot-faln-a-film-by-stan-brakhage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/02\/08\/thot-faln-a-film-by-stan-brakhage\/","title":{"rendered":"Thot-Fal&#8217;N, a film by Stan Brakhage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MjvdffYKAJs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/brakhage1.jpg\" alt=\"brakhage1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A final film for this week of Burroughs-related posts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MjvdffYKAJs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Thot-Fal&#8217;N<\/em><\/a> (1978) is a typical piece of Stan Brakhage montage: 9 minutes of completely silent close-ups, shots blurred to incoherence, plus occasional clips of American streets or people. Among the identifiable humans there&#8217;s a brief sequence with William Burroughs and a balloon, also shots of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. Brakhage enjoyed creating cinema that was deliberately abstract and without narrative so there&#8217;s no need to go looking for a meaning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MjvdffYKAJs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/brakhage2.jpg\" alt=\"brakhage2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-william-burroughs-archive\/\">The William Burroughs archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A final film for this week of Burroughs-related posts. Thot-Fal&#8217;N (1978) is a typical piece of Stan Brakhage montage: 9 minutes of completely silent close-ups, shots blurred to incoherence, plus occasional clips of American streets or people. Among the identifiable humans there&#8217;s a brief sequence with William Burroughs and a balloon, also shots of Allen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/02\/08\/thot-faln-a-film-by-stan-brakhage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thot-Fal&#8217;N, a film by Stan Brakhage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,7],"tags":[967,1386,3262,1190],"class_list":["post-14873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-film","tag-allen-ginsberg","tag-peter-orlovsky","tag-stan-brakhage","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3RT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}