“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”
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Part of Arabic Numeral Series
19 films
Arabic Numeral Series 1
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Arabic Numeral Series 3
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Arabic Numeral Series 5
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Arabic Numeral Series 4
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Arabic Numeral Series 2
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Arabic Numeral Series 6
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Arabic Numeral Series 12
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Arabic Numeral Series 7
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Arabic Numeral Series 8
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Arabic Numeral Series 9
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Arabic Numeral Series 11
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Arabic Numeral Series 0 + 10
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Arabic Numeral Series 13
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Arabic Numeral Series 14
Movie · 1982
Arabic Numeral Series 15
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Arabic Numeral Series 16
Movie · 1982
Arabic Numeral Series 19
Movie · 1982
Arabic Numeral Series 17
Movie · 1982
Arabic Numeral Series 18
Movie · 1982
Stan Brakhage Director
United States release January 18, 1982
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Original language
English
Release dates
United States · January 18, 1982
Theatrical
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