"The Domain of the Moment" is an 14-18-minute short film from 1977, so this one is already almost 40 years old. American filmmaker Stan Brakhage made this during the summer of his career age-wise. It is neither among his shortest nor longest works and he actually tries something new here: animal documentary. Of course, the fact that this is silent and there are no intertitle shows us how he fails entirely in this field again as well. One of many. not even a cute raccoon can save this movie. The final sequences are all about a snake killing and devouring a mouse. Shock value perhaps, cinematic value zero. This is another failure in the long line of failure by Brakhage. Watch something else instead.
Review of The Domain of the Moment
