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.
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.
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?