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Stan Brakhage

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Art is a sense of magic.


— Stan Brakhage


#magic #sense

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?


— Stan Brakhage


#colours #crawling #create #eye #field

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.


— Stan Brakhage


#i #i love #love #me #objected

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'


— Stan Brakhage


#before #beginning #colour #endless #gradations

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.


— Stan Brakhage


#just #monkeys #out #people #you

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.


— Stan Brakhage


#forever #novelists #poets #side

Poetry is a totally different art than film.


— Stan Brakhage


#different #film #poetry #than #totally

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.


— Stan Brakhage


#capacity #intrinsic #vulgar

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.


— Stan Brakhage


#hollywood #hollywood movies #i #kinds #like

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.


— Stan Brakhage


#because #blank #blank page #easily #either






About Stan Brakhage

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Did you know about Stan Brakhage?

Though not a practicing Christian during his adulthood Brakhage requested a traditional Anglican service. He retired from teaching and moved to Canada in 2002 settling with his second wife Marilyn and their two sons in Victoria British Columbia. At the time of his death Brakhage was also working on the Chinese Series made by scratching directly on to film.

James Stanley Brakhage (pron. Brakhage's films are often noted for their expressiveness and lyricism. Over the course of five decades Brakhage created a large and diverse body of work exploring a variety of formats approaches and techniques that included handheld camerawork painting directly onto celluloid fast cutting in-camera editing scratching on film collage film and the use of multiple exposures.

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