Thanks to J. Shamus & Brian Goldberg. And no, Bill Kennedy, that's not the same Decodings. This one is composed entirely of "appropriated" imagery from instructional & documentary footage, music by Shostakovich, and recitation by William Graves (hope I got his name right). A spiritual as well as technical ancestor would seem to be Conner, the corresponding work being 'A Movie'. The imagery in Dcodings is even more contrapuntal to the music and other filmic elements than in A Movie, and operate at a far higher level of development of that "strategy". As innovative as the editing is, however, I find the greater accomplishment to be the blending of what might be called feeling-tones - I mean the peculiar qualities of both the Shostakovich and Graves' remarkable speaking voice. This is a sweeping work, intense and beautiful. Speaking of intense and beautiful, I'm curious as to what if any changes in critical interpretation of Stan Brakhage's work has occurred since PA Sitney's Visionary Film. What's the current assessment of his work in film academia? Rh.Hurst [log in to unmask]