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Thot-Fal'N

Documentary
5.7·1978·0h 14m

This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and th...

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Cast

Jane Wodening

Jane Wodening

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Tom Bartek

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Gloria Bartek

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William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

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Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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Peter Orlovsky

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Philip Whalen

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DIRECTOR

Stan Brakhage

OVERVIEW

This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and then that feeling of falling away from conscious thought. The film can only be said to describe or be emblematic of this state because I cannot imagine symbolizing or otherwise representing an equivalent of thoughtlessness itself. Thus the actors in the film, Jane Brakhage, Tom and Gloria Bartek, Williams Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Olovsky and Phillip Whalen are figments of this 'Thought-Fallen Process', as are their images in the film to find themselves being photographed."