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The Extraordinary Child
Stan Brakhage

The Extraordinary Child

  • Comedy
RELEASE

1954-11-12

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

13 min

Description

The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars. Everyone mugs hilariously. The movie could be taken as another example of the Romantic notion of the artist as a monstrous child or misfit, or a parody of the same rather than the personal confessional statement seen so often in these film movements.