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Today, the Star Wars films found a way into your local liberal arts college's experimental film class.

First, setup. In 1978, avant-garde director Stan Brakhage penned an essay retaliating against traditional "filmmaking." Too often, he says in more elaborate prose, reality is the modern artist's goal. We're so driven to replicate our surroundings that, in the future, computers will simply bypass human interference and produce photographs based on pre-existing data. The opening paragraph to "Memories on Vision" dismantles what Brakhage saw as a rigid understanding of what is and isn't art, while also providing a base understanding of his style, which involved painting 8mm film, scratching the celluloid, and superimposing images into a cacophony of the senses:

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word."

Keep this all in mind while soaking up YouTube user maurcs' remixed version of the two Star Wars trilogies. By superimposing George Lucas' six films, maurcs creates a synesthetic odyssey that looks like a cross between Brakhage's own Dog Star Man and The Garden of Earthy Delights. It is pop art of the extreme, abrasive and engrossing all at once. Knowledge of the actual films adds another layer of whiplash to the film—time, space, and critical opinion stretch like taffy. If a sci-fi nerd fell into a black hole, passing the event horizon would look something like maurcs' creation.

Over the years, several Star Wars devotees have attempted to edit the six films down to a singular story, or at the least, a coherent trilogy. Their mission is plot driven, to filet Star Wars' barrage of images into a lean meal. Star Wars Wars: All 6 Films At Once sees the movies for what they really are: sound, picture, and iconography. This is closer to Lucas' original vision than any fan edit. The mash-up acknowledges that the Star Wars dialogue is, frankly, awful. Instead, it prioritizes sensation, a world before the beginning was the word.

Matt Patches Senior Writer Patches is a Senior Writer at Esquire.com.

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