Carl E. Brown Movies

Second part of Brown's Air Cries 'Empty Water' trilogy.

Cindy was asleep under a maple tree/ Rolled over and said to me/ I dreamt of Air Cries/ I turned over, we were lying on the the/ dry cracked mud of a...

To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film...

A dual-projection film where each director made 30 minutes of film without knowledge of what the other was making. Snow's side is a visual...

"A good friend of mine died at 9:10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2007... my film piece is called "Quiet Chaos of Desire" it comes out of my experience in...

A child is given birth in the womb of its dead mother. Child’s eyes perceive the death of a city. The last birth combined with the fire and...

"The images of “Memory Fade” are not lost… they are spectral and the dance steps repeated over and over in time fights the Fade...

A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker. Brown speaks candidly, is shown in a...

Monet is an artist that I have always greatly admired. His use of colour through water and sky to convey his emotional state has had a great...

These images are oxidized residues, fixed by light and chemical elements, of living organisms. No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue...

"Carl Brown makes celluloid dance. [His] new film work will burn colours so deeply into your brain, you'll be watching a light show inside your...

the fishing boats are out in the water the fish are caught. brought into shore the men haul the catch off the boat. the boat once again goes out to...

"This two-screen dual projector film extends Brown's use of chemically tortured celluloid to the breaking point. A collaboration with his long-time...

"'Brownsnow' presents a fascinating combination of two artistic visions: Carl Brown's and Michael Snow's. The form of this expressionistic...

A man counting sheep as he sleeps. I have never seen sheep as I sleep. The sheep relax the man, he falls into a deep sleep. You are wide awake,...

As the wheel turns, the religion of the body moves to and through the physical into the psychological. We see the feared, all is moved. There is a...

"'Drop' restages Newton's celebrated encounter with the heaviest and most voluptuous fruit of the vegetable kingdom. It tracks the eye's apple from...

"Condensation is an aggregation of moments that appear like crossroads or intersections. The moments when things happen to you. […] I...

A painful but enlightening film on the controversial subject of mental illness - or more particularly, the myth of mental illness. It is a...

Life is like a gigantic phonograph record fifty feet across. Or like one of those whirling discs at the old amusement park. You get on the disc and...