Filmgrafix Productions

Probably the most insane film created by Francois Miron, the titles comes from a book by W.Grey Walter: "The Living Brain", the book is mostly about flicker and stroboscobic response, the book was quoted often by filmmaker Paul Sharits and also recomended by him to Miron around 1987, after this exchange a descision to create this mind bogling, mind altering film was made, it freaked a lot of people out at The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago, this was probably due mostly to the heavy flicker effect, especially when double projected, side by side, creating very unusual rorchach paterns, the original sound with stereo effects, subliminals and high pitch frequency were also played at incredibly high volumes for full effect. The opening lecture on perception is by The Hafler Trio. Despite its oddity the film received a standing ovation during a Master's thesis presentation at The Film Center in Chicago in spring 1990. Oddly enough the film has played in it's original set up quite often, mostly in museums and Art galleries, it won some sort of prize at the 11th Annual National Short Film and Video Competition, USA Film Festival, Dallas, Texas.

One of the most "famous" showing of this film was at a live event in San Francisco featuring a review of Miron's work "Neurological Clutch", presented at The Kennel Club in 1991, multiple projectors, 50 feet X 100 feet screens, 5000 watts of sound. Craig Baldwin also showed in it's original format at his "Other Cinema" screenings. This film as also been used as a "light show", projected on many bands,some unknown some well know, the last of which being Montreals Godspeed You Black Emperor! opening for a Sonic Youth show. (several other films from Filmgrafix were also used).

The opening of this film was also used (without permission) for theopening of independent San Francisco TV show "Trauma TV", soon after the culprits were taken ill from a mysterious illness not seen since 1952. This film is not in distribution, however a few bootlegs of it exists here and there.

In 1988 Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum listed this film as Critic's choice.