Thot-Fal'N

Story

Synopsis

This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and then that feeling of falling away from conscious thought. The film can only be said to describe or be emblematic of this state because I cannot imagine symbolizing or otherwise representing an equivalent of thoughtlessness itself. Thus the actors in the film, Jane Brakhage, Tom and Gloria Bartek, Williams Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Olovsky and Phillip Whalen are figments of this 'Thought-Fallen Process', as are their images in the film to find themselves being photographed."

Director

Stan Brakhage

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

27 June 1978

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Jane Wodening

  Self

• Tom Bartek

  Self

• Gloria Bartek

  Self

• 

  William S. Burroughs

  Self

• 

  Allen Ginsberg

  Self

• Peter Orlovsky

  Self

• Philip Whalen

  Self