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Stan Brakhage Biography

James Stanley Brakhage (/ˈbrækədʒ/ BRAK-əj; January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003), 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.

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Artists are mostly shits of the worst order. You wouldn't want one living next door to you. Think about it: Vincent Van Gogh living next door, coming over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God!

Artist, Borrow, Ear, Morning, Thinking, Worst

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.

Art, Attempt, Device, Photography, Struggle, Usages

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Closest, Foundation, Prove It, Way

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

Film, Hollywood, Kind, Make, Movies, Novels

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.

Film, Greatest, Honor, Lack, Mean, Quality

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.

Acts, Black And White, Discovery, Drama, Fable, Structured

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

Baby, Color, Field, Grass, Green

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

Love, Love Is, Objected, Worries, Worry

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

Adventure, Baby, Eye, Grass, Perspective, Unruled

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.

Alive, Innumerable, Movement, Shimmering, World

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

Forever, Novelists, Poets, Side, Sides

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.

People, Problem, Seer, Simple, Visionaries

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

Made, Movie, Movies, Nobody

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