Synopsis
The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes is the final film in
Brakhage’s Pittsburgh Trilogy, a silent meditation on death depicting real bodies lying in a morgue. Described by
Tyler Thier as “one of the starkest works of body horror” in which
Brakhage “makes the monster our very own perception”, this work derives its title from the word ‘autopsy’ to consider how we see, and what we see on the cinema screen.
