{"id":18652,"date":"2026-06-15T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18652"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:12:01","slug":"three-1976-shorts-with-unpromising-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18652","title":{"rendered":"Three 1976 Shorts with Unpromising Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Table<\/em> (Ernie Gehr)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flicker film of a table setting, with a teapot and some cups and saucers, maybe some scissors back there.  A shot from one angle in red light, another shot slightly offset in blue light, a third in white, giving the impression of a 3D movie gone haywire in editing, or a preview of late-period Ken Jacobs.  Watched this as the director intended (a video copy at home, which was seemingly rephotographed off a film projection, while listening to Makaya McCraven in the headphones).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Window<\/em> (Stan Brakhage)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stan aims his camera at\/through a window for ten minutes.  Unfortunately for the haters, this is incredible, because Stan is able to aim his camera at\/through objects until they reveal their spirits inside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/table1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/table2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Leisure<\/em> (Bruce Petty)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody expressing themselves simultaneously was causing tension and blood pressure&#8230; work had been planned for, and leisure had not.&#8221;  See, this is why I sketch out the month&#8217;s moviewatching in advance, to lower the blood pressure.  &#8220;Plans were laid to get fitness into offices, design into chairs.&#8221;  Very jumbled and busy, by design.  Pencil sketches meets cutup animation, the narrator sounding like he&#8217;s advertising to us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/table3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/table4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table (Ernie Gehr) Flicker film of a table setting, with a teapot and some cups and saucers, maybe some scissors back there. A shot from one angle in red light, another shot slightly offset in blue light, a third in white, giving the impression of a 3D movie gone haywire in editing, or a preview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,74,3492,3491,21,148],"class_list":["post-18652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-avant-garde","tag-bruce-petty","tag-ernie-gehr","tag-shorts","tag-stan-brakhage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18696,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18652\/revisions\/18696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}