Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
Plot.
On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her. She gives birth: we see the crowning of the baby's head, then the birth itself; we watch a pair of hands tie off and cut the umbilical cord. With the help of the attending hands, the mother expels the placenta. The infant, a baby girl, nurses. We return from time to time to the bath scene. By the end, dad's excited; mother and daughter rest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Cast & Crew.

Jane Wodening
Self (uncredited)

Myrrena Brakhage
Self (Baby Being Born) (uncredited)

Stan Brakhage
Self (uncredited) / Director / Director of Photography / Editor
Media.


Details.
This Movie Is About.
home movie footage
preserved film
Wiki.
Window Water Baby Moving is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, filmed in November 1958 and released in 1959. The film documents the birth of the director's first child, his daughter Myrrena, by his then-wife Jane Brakhage, later known as Jane Wodening.
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