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Water as a verb: A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea, by Stan Brakhage

The CCCB's cinema

A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea is the first part of the series Vancouver Island Films, Stan Brakhage’s latest large-scale project which he filmed after making several hand-painted movies, as well as creating his largest studio in just one location: the ocean, filtered by means of an imaginary biography of his wife Marilyn.

Xcèntric. Programme January - February 2020

Érik Bullot, Su Friedrich, Storm de Hirsch, Edward Owens, Amy Halpern, Masao Adachi, Igor and Gleb Aleinikov, Yevgeny Yufit, John Smith, Karpo Godina, Noémia Delgado or Juan Bufill are some of the filmmakers featured in our programme January- February 2020 of Xcèntric. 

Xcèntric. Programme January - February 2019

Jan Švankmajer, Rudy Burckhardt, Margarita Cordeiro and António Reis, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Carolee Schneemann, Stan Brakhage, Christine Noll Brinckmann, David Brooks and Arthur and Corinne Cantrill are some of the filmmakers featured in our programme January- February 2019 of Xcèntric.