Blue Moses (film)

Blue Moses is a 1962 American experimental film directed by Stan Brakhage, starring Robert Benson.

[1][2] Blue Moses originated from discussions between Brakhage and Benson on the role of sound, plot, and the cameraman in film.

Brakhage's first films had been strongly influenced by Deren's psychodramas, which made use of montage and shot/countershot structures to build "a uniquely cinematic time and space."

However, he soon began moving toward films about the act of seeing, a shift Deren had criticized in her essay "Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality", published in 1960 shortly before her death.

Blue Moses makes reference to Deren's 1944 film At Land in its circular structure, the sudden costume changes of its protagonist, and its story about footprints.

P. Adams Sitney linked the tracks in Blue Moses to the footprints on the beach in Maya Deren 's At Land .