Window Water Baby Moving

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Window Water Baby Moving
Directed by	Stan Brakhage
Release date(s)	1959
Country	USA
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Window Water Baby Moving is a short film by Stan Brakhage, filmed in November 1958 and released in 1959, which documents, in a very loose and poetic but also frank way, the birth of his first child. The film shows the birth of the child in extremely graphic detail. The images are intercut with shots of the window of the room.

Originally Brakhage planned on filming his wife in the hospital, but at the time this film was made, cameras were not allowed inside the birthing room. In addition, his wife, Jane Brakhage, had a fear of hospitals, and did not want to give birth to her child in one.^{[citation needed]} In this film, Brakhage attempts to transcribe the emotions of childbirth to film.^{[citation needed]} It aims to provide insight into the experience for the male viewer who is traditionally cut out of the picture. In his audio 'remarks' on the film on the Criterion DVD By Brakhage, Brakhage claims that the film is largely responsible for the advent of men being allowed into the delivery room, and for the now-common practice of filming a birth.