Absence
1976, English. Directed by Stan Brakhage.
"This film is about 'nothing.' Hints of dramatic 'loss' are imaged throughout, but the primary effect of the film is to give, through fleeting and ephemeral visions, a sense of something which almost exists but unhappily doesn't." - Marilyn Brakhage "Absence" is perhaps the most extreme of all Brakhage's Super 8 films and one of the most extreme of all the films of his tenuous and complete uprooting: a vision of a groundless existence, in which all the things we are used to knowing and using in our daily life are totally absent. (Fred Camper)
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- 0h 8m
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- English
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- 26 December 1976
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Absence isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 26 December 1976. (Checked 4 November 2026.)
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Who directed Absence?
Absence (1976) was directed by Stan Brakhage.