Stan Brakhage – 1959 – USA
Stan Brakhage made hundreds of short films, almost always alone and sometimes even without the use of a camera. Some are more abstract than others, obviously, but virtually all of them are intensely personal, chronicling the filmmaker’s most private anxieties. In this early black-and-white film from the 50s, Brakhage portrays a man and woman (played by Brakhage and his wife) alone together in a house. Without dialogue, we can infer from the title that they are relative newlyweds coming to terms with the reality of having to share everything, in particular their living space. There is no real communication; only tentative time-killing distractions, including intermittent lovemaking, shown in distressing negative exposure. I don’t know for sure, but it’s hard to believe that the eerie shots of the man moving in and out of the shadows of his house at night were not a pronounced influence upon David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997).
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