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Duplicity Collection

Three parts by Stan Brakhage

3 movies 1978 – 1980 1h 5m total
Directed by Stan Brakhage

Movies in this collection

Duplicity
Duplicity

Duplicity

1978 23m Dir. Stan Brakhage

A friend of many years' acquaintance showed me the duplicity of myself. And, midst guilt and anxiety, I came to see that duplicity often shows itself forth in semblance of sincerity. Then a dream informed me that SINCERITY IV, which I had just completed, was such a semblance.

Duplicity II
Duplicity II

Duplicity II

1978 20m Dir. Stan Brakhage

This, the second film of the continuing autobiographical Duplicity series, is composed of superimpositions much as the mind "dupes" remembered experience into some semblance of, say, composed surety rather than imbalanced accuracy - as thought may even warp "scene" into symmetry, or "face" into multitudinous mask.

Duplicity III
Duplicity III

Duplicity III

1980 22m Dir. Stan Brakhage

The final Duplicity film does seem at resolve with the term. All previous visual manifestations have been extended to their limits, through four-roll superimpositions. Obvious costumes and masks. Drama as an ultimate bid for truth, and totemic recognition of human and animal life-on-earth dominate all the evasions a duplicity otherwise affords.