BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Join us on Monday, April 27th, at 7pm, at The Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) for an encore screening of Dark Days: Brakhage in the Late '70s, guest curated by Carter Haskins.

These four films are just a small sampling of the Coop’s vast Brakhage collection. Many of their Brakhage prints are rarely screened, and they aren’t available anywhere digitally. This screening series highlights the best of this underseen trove of Brakhage’s films.

The warm childhood imagery of Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects foreshadows the dark suburban core of Nightmare Series. Tragoedia and Sluice act as an extended interlude between the two, the former a “goat-song” and the latter a silver-streaked poem. A striking sunset sequence in Nightmare Series predates Tommy Lee Wallace's Halloween III but postdates David Brooks’ Carolyn and Me: Part Two. —Carter Haskins

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PROGRAM:

1. Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects (1977), 16mm, color, silent, 20 minutes
2. Trageodia (1976), 16mm, color, silent, 39 minutes
3. Sluice (1978), 16mm, color, silent, 4 minutes
4. Nightmare Series (1978), 16mm, color, silent, 20 minutes

Total Run Time: 83 minutes.