Stan Brakhage
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Strickland is clearly a heavy-duty cinephile—Berberian Sound Studio paid tribute to Italian giallo, and there’s a dream sequence here that includes an homage to Stan Brakhage’s avant-garde short “Mothlight”—and he has a lot of fun early on establishing the parameters of his Eurotrash softcore aesthetic.
The abstract images that represent Gilderoy's fragile mental state are mirrored by the imaginary blizzard of moths, quoted from Stan Brakhage’s experimental short Mothlight (1963), that bombards Evelyn.
One should mention the butterflies: Strickland lets the bugs fly in a borderline-experimental sequence that’s a direct quote of Stan Brakhage’s “Mothlight.”
Shutter Island (2010)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
influenced by Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
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Scorsese hits the genre tendencies aggressively here, more than any other Scorsese film I can think of, and enters into only one or two moments that defy the norms: one moment in particular, an intimate memory of Teddy’s wife giving him a tie, is shown in sweet but abstract close ups and cut in a way reminiscent of Stan Brakhage’s Window Water Baby Moving but in color (and without live birth—a possible inside reference to later events).
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Directed by André Øvredal
influenced by The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1972)
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With its long, lingering shots of scalpels slicing into human flesh, hands digging through viscera, and skin peeling away from muscle, director André Øvredal's The Autopsy of Jane Doe is perhaps cinema's most comprehensive look at the gruesome business of necropsy since The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes.