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The Dead

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"The Dead became my first work in which things that might very easily be taken as symbols were so photographed as to destroy all their symbolic potential. The action of making The Dead kept me alive." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2013.

DirectorStan Brakhage

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Cast · Directed by Stan Brakhage

KAKenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger

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The Dead hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around February 18, 1961. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.