Note to Pati (1969)

Something of an aesthetic convergence between the diaristic autobiographies and quotidian images of Jonas Mekas as illustrated in his Diaries Notes and Sketches chronicles and the hand crafted dissonance and material violence of Stan Brakhage Note to Pati presents a seemingly typical winter scene the day after a snow storm as a suburban neighborhood digs out from under the accumulation and children make the most of an unexpected day off from school by playing in their winter wonderland Saul Levines images are diffused faded and ephemeral made all the more dissociating by Levines disorienting rapid cut editing restless and twitching camerawork and destabilized quick pan sequences an evocation of a transitory and wideeyed innocence filmrefcom