Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind

Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind

en
PG-13

5.9

October 1997

This film, a combination of hand-painting and photography, is a fulsome exposition of the themes of DOG STAR MAN. In that early epic I had envisioned The World Tree as dead, fit only for firewood; and at end of DOG STAR MAN I had chopped it up amidst a flurry of stars (finally Cassiopia's Chair): now, these many years later, I am compelled to comprehend YGGDRASILL as rooted in the complex electrical synapses of thought process, to sense it being alive today as when nordic legendry hatched it. I share this compulsion with Andrei Tarkovsky, whose last film The Sacrifice struggles to revive The World Tree narratively, whereas I simply present (one might almost say "document") a moving graph approximate to my thought process, whereby The Tree roots itself as the stars we, reflectively, are.

Runtime:

17 minutes

Status:

Released

Original Language:

en

Budget:

N/A

Revenue:

N/A

Director:

Stan Brakhage

Cast