Stan Brakhage steps out of his usual role as experimental filmmaker to narrate animated visualizations of Venezuelan creation myths.

In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages and shot in 35mm color, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role. Night Hunter evokes a disquieting dream scape, drawn from allegory, myth and archetype.