Roman Numeral: IV 1980

Directed by Stan Brakhage

It was while studying this film that I decided to group these ‘romans’ under the title Roman Numeral Series and to give up the term ‘imagnostic’ altogether… also to dedicate the series to Don Yannacito who had seen something ‘concrete’ and even narratively dramatic in is this work. The term deja vu comes to mind each time I view this film – this, then, somehow the echoing of the birth of imagery. – S.B.