Cast
Stan Brakhage Jane Wodening
Credits
Written by: Stan Brakhage
Cinematography: Stan Brakhage
Editing: Stan Brakhage
Plot
A four-part silent film, with a prelude, in which a man climbs a mountain to chop down a tree, in a dense collage of superimposed images of nature, the body, the sun and the moon, a myth of birth and rebirth.
Sinekatalog’s take
A dense and ambitious cornerstone of American avant-garde film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.2 / 10 (1,595 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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