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
american-director people
No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.
hollywood kind film
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
white black might
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,
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.
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.
love-is worry
I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
capacity vulgar
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
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.
forever sides novelists
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
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?