Window Water Baby Moving

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Stan Brakhage
• Cast(s): Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Brakhage

• Duration: 13min
• Similar To: Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill, Untold: Chess Mates
• Story:
  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.
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