"Scenes from
Under Childhood is a series of 16mm film in four independent sections by the
American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced between 1967 and 1970.
All four sections are silent, though Brakhage made a version with sound
available for the first section. (..) The film is often described as an attempt
by Brakhage to visualize how his children saw the world. When asked to describe
the film, Brakhage himself wrote that it was "a visualization of the inner
world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of
the ‘myths of childhood’ through revelation of the extremes of violent terror
and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental
remembering of it… a ‘tone poem’ for the eye – very inspired by the music of
Olivier Messiaen." (From Wikipedia)
