The Dante Quartet is a short experimental film by Stan Brakhage, which he completed in 1987. The film is nothing more than changing still paintings that are animated by rapidly playing each frame, but I found its impact quite powerful. The imagery formed by seemingly arbitrary still paintings really captures the essence of Dante’s work. At points the animations look like the whirlwind of bodies on the level of lust. Other times, Brakhage overlays paint with still images in the background adding a whole new dimension in the message his short film conveys. It is amazing to think about how much work Stan Brakhage must have put into his film The Dante Quartet. I know that I personally would not have had the patience to paint each slide individually. Nevertheless, I found many things interesting from this work, such as the idea of perhaps slowing a digital film’s frame rate to achieve that animated effect, and that sometimes overlaying two images together, if done thoughtfully, can change the narrative and message of your projection entirely.
-Nathan D.
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