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The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (1971): As far back as the eyeslit that opened Salvador DaIi and Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou, cinema has used shocks to upset bourgeois standards-or at least get asses in the seats. But even the hardest gorefest has little on Stan Brakhage's stomach churner. For over a half hour, the avant-gardist's camera descends into and prowls over a hallowed-out corpse midautopsy, dehumanizing the body and making it look like underexplored terrain.
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