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| | The Austin Chronicle Screens: Stan Brakhage: In Memoriam |
 | | The film most commonly called Brakhage's masterpiece, Dog Star Man, arguably represents the high-water mark of the "New American Cinema" movement that flourished in the 1960s. |
 | | Starring Brakhage, his wife Jane, their dog Sirius, and a snowy Colorado mountain, Dog Star Man is a rapturous, orgiastically beautiful viewing experience; the whole screen quivers and dances with flashes of fur, luminous sheets of pure color, glowing bare skin, galloping mountain vistas, blood, leaves, sun, and snow. |
 | | VHS copies of Dog Star Man are available through better video stores, but their blurry approximation of the film's sharp-etched imagery really only serves to give renters an idea of what they're missing. |
| austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-04-11/screens_feature2.html (410 words) |
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