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Stone circles / [a film by Barbara Hammer].
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Hammer, Barbara, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Menhirs.
- Rocks.
- Short films.
- menhirs.
- short subjects.
- Genre:
- Experimental films.
- Feature films.
- Feature films
- Experimental films
- Short films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (11 minutes)) : sound, color
- Contained In:
- EAI online catalogue (Electronic Arts Intermix)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Electronic Arts Intermix, [2000?]
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- "Stone Circles is a celebration of ancient pre-patriarchal standing stones, mounds, and circles including Stonehenge and Avesbury. ; 'In Stone Circles, Hammer really leaves 'nation' as well as 'era' and creates a film poem on the prehistoric stone cultures of Britain. She films dolmens and Druid rock formations, including Stonehenge. An introductory section shows excerpts from books and diagrams which in their way document these stones and explain the stones' origins. Hammer takes the diagrams and playfully animates these scientific 'scale models' by filming colorful arrangements of small stones, clods of dirt, sticks, and grasses. She brings an animism to the subsequent images of the structures themselves, and this animism seems just as valid an approach to the stone formations as the historical/scientific speculations regarding their significance.' -- Claudia Gorbman, Jump Cut."--Electronic Arts Intermix website.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on March 7, 2025).
- Originally produced in 1983; 16 mm film on HD video,
- OCLC:
- 1164712713
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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