Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage
James Stanley Brakhage, better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
colours crawling create field grass rainbows unaware
How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?
american-director people
No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.
forever sides novelists
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
beautiful looks ifs
If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.
art different film
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
movie made
There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
simple people visionaries
It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.
capacity vulgar
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
running video pages
The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.
opportunity doctors average
After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.
love-is worry
I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
mean honor quality
Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.
drama black-and-white discovery
A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.
photography art struggle
I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.