Damnation of Faust: Will-o'-the-Wisp (A Deceitful Goal)

Dara Birnbaum

1985 | 00:05:38 | United States | English | Color |

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Feminism, Literature

The second part of the Damnation of Faust Trilogy centers on the development of Marguerite, the female character in the Faust legend. Masterfully composing fragmentary "memory" images in elegant 19th Century Japanese compositions, Birnbaum traces the process of deception and abandonment through the heroine’s mournful description of her state of mind. Passing images are suffused with light, obscured in a blinding brightness, to suggest forgetting.

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