The Hyacinth Child's Bedtime Story

Réalisé par Sara Bezaire et Burton Rubenstein

Canada, 1967 (expérimental, 22 minutes, couleurs)

Description du film [en anglais] :
« This film 'deals with the images and yearnings of early childhood.' »
-- Colorado College Tiger (source)

Description du film [en anglais] :
« An experimental film of real imagination, complexity and beauty. »
-- Space City News (source)

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Citation sur The Hyacinth Child's Bedtime Story [en anglais]

« The hyacinth as such does not appear in the film [The Hyacinth Child's Bedtime Story]; it is recollected only in the purplish colour used to surround the child being forcibly dominated at the commencement of the action. This is sufficient to reinforce the death and rebirth pattern of the metaphors. The child is superceded by the youth; the colours change largely to red, the traditional colour for blood, death, revolution, destruction, and life. While the ritual dance of the children procedes, the youth, excluded from the group activity, and alone, symbolically masturbates when he holds the candelabra and the set of burning candles between his legs. The religious import of this sequence is conveyed not only by means of the candle imagery and the awareness of purification through fire but also through the chantral music in the background. »
-- William Dean (source)

Bibliographie sur The Hyacinth Child's Bedtime Story

Articles de journaux, de revues grand public ou de sites d'information en ligne

DEAN, William. « Criticism and the Underground Film », Take One (Montreal), vol. 1, no. 9, 1968. [en anglais]