{"id":18806,"date":"2026-07-25T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18806"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:20:42","slug":"scenes-from-under-childhood-1970-stan-brakhage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18806","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from Under Childhood (1970, Stan Brakhage)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched part one <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10861\">before<\/a>.  Color fields flash and fade.  Shots of the house and children have been turned into reddish defocused funhouse blobs.  Almost-normal photography at the very end of a young kid feeding an even younger kid with a spoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/underchild1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>2. Distinct textures in this one, not just more of the same.  Added to the funhouse effect is some Melies house transformations with the kids as actors\/witnesses, shimmering particle effects, and some really nice superimpositions, while the film processing looks like someone turning the color and tint up and down on a TV.  The kids watch Shirley Temple on their own TV.  Wild textures and flames, and a playhouse in the real house so he can mess with our sense of scale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/underchild2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/underchild3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>3. Ever more recognizable images of human activities.  Getting out of the house more too, a picnic then a road trip.  I never know how much of the apparently domestic footage is staged scenes vs. the rest of the family just living their lives while dad buzzes around them with a camera stuck to his face.  If the latter, then it&#8217;s a fairly nude household.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/underchild4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>4. Opens on his wife crying, then the kids are fighting too &#8211; this is the discord episode.  A trip to the pool is edited into a fleshy mashup, two birds seen dimly.  Stan does the dishes, and the color fields from part one return with a vengeance.  Everyone shows us their penis then it wraps up at a baseball game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/underchild5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/underchild6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>I played the Silents Shuffle &#8211; MVP of each section: Anoushka Shankar, Squarepusher, Zorn&#8217;s Book of Angels, Orbital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched part one before. Color fields flash and fade. Shots of the house and children have been turned into reddish defocused funhouse blobs. Almost-normal photography at the very end of a young kid feeding an even younger kid with a spoon. 2. Distinct textures in this one, not just more of the same. Added [&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":[400,74,170,64,148],"class_list":["post-18806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-avant-garde","tag-children","tag-silent","tag-stan-brakhage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18806","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=18806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18844,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18806\/revisions\/18844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}