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	Stan Brakhage
		Brakhage was born as Robert Sanders in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri.
		In 1954, Brakhage moved to New York City where he associated with a number of contemporary artists, among them the poets Robert Creeley and Kenneth Rexroth[?] and the abstract expressionist painters.
		Brakhage is revered as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century, and his work has had some small impact on mainstream cinema also with the credits of the film Seven, with their scratched emulsion, rapid cutaways and bursts of light, being very much in Brakhage's style.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stan_Brakhage.html (550 words)

	Stan Brakhage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Famed avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage — a longtime professor of film studies at the University of Colorado — died Sunday, March 3rd, 2003, at a Canadian hospital after succumbing to cancer.
		Stan Brakhage was born in 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri.
		Stan was involved since the inception of TIE as a major artistic influence and supporter.
	www.experimentalcinema.com /Stan_Brakhage.htm (211 words)

	Film Comment
		Brakhage was at heart a fighter, whose self-proclaimed mission was to live his life as an artist in pragmatic postwar America.
		Brakhage's ultimate challenge was both to transcend the machine and use it to create an embodiment of consciousness, of first-person sensibility.
		Brakhage regarded film's malleable material as a living tissue: he scratched, painted, dyed, collaged, and overlaid patterns directly onto the filmstrip; during his last days at home, with his mobility entirely limited, he carved into film emulsion with his fingernails.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/online/brakhage.htm (1252 words)

	Harvard Film Archive: Stan Brakhage: In Memoriam
		For Brakhage, the film image served not merely as a conveyor of representational content or narrative meaning but rather as a record of intensive acts of seeing: "metaphors on vision," as he famously termed his work.
		Brakhage’s version of a structural film, The Riddle of Lumen is constructed as a series of uncanny object lessons on the nature of light.
		Brakhage’s early masterpiece and an epic of mythopoeic cinema, Dog Star Man is a five-part work that has evoked comparison to Whitman’s Leaves of Grass for its joyous affirmation of life and to the work of the Abstract Expressionists for its painterly handling of movement, light, texture, and form.
	harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/03mayjun/brakhage.htm (670 words)

	COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION-Stan Brakhage Plate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It was Brakhage's dynamic camera movement, Mekas observed, that initiated a "stylistic revolution" that influenced the "cinema verite" style of filmed documentaries and the French "nouvelle vogue." Although considered an "art-for-art's-sake" artist, Brakhage's art, steeped in Romantic aesthetics, is a deep study of the artist and the metaphors artists use to find meaning.
		Brakhage's central message, reinforced polemically in his lectures and writings, is that the adult eye is trained to filter out the wondrous and imaginative world of the innocent, young and untrained eye.
		Stan Brakhage died of cancer at the age of 70 on March 9, 2003.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /brakhag8.html (2016 words)

	In Focus
		Stan Brakhage’s films explode with sensual beauty: bursts of color heightened by extreme contrasts in hue and shape and by stunning depth effects; more monochromatic passages...
		Stan Brakhage was born on January 14, 1933, in a home for unwed mothers in Kansas City, Missouri.
		Stan Brakhage’s body of work is a sprawling, breathtaking accomplishment notable for both its diversity of styles and techniques.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/in_focus.asp?id=13 (397 words)

	Stan Brakhage \| Michael McClure
		Stan likes to say that he was frustrated in his early desire to be a poet and that his hundreds of hours on film are closer to music than to poetry.
		Stan was absorbing the energetic principles of the concept of field from Olson via Duncan, and he was taking in the intensively biological shaping-ideas of Robert Duncan and the beautiful, unique concepts of collage of Jess Collins.
		MM: Stan is a true alchemist in the sense that I honor, and is a true visionary in the sense that I honor a visionary.
	mcclure-manzarek.com /brakhage.html (3433 words)

	Stan Brakhage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stan Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American filmmaker.
		Brakhage's films are usually silent and lack a traditional story, being more analogous to visual poetry than to prose story-telling.
		Brakhage is revered as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century, and his work has had some small impact on mainstream cinema.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stan_Brakhage (798 words)

	Brakhage and the Theory of Montage - Grauer
		Brakhage's style is thought to be entirely idiosyncratic, an attitude that he himself has fostered in his writings, especially when he claims that he both shoots and edits his films in a state approaching trance.
		Brakhage continues, recommending a host of "remedies" designed to wrench the apparatus free from perspective and its attendant rigidities: spitting on the lens, throwing it out of focus, speeding up or slowing down the shutter, hand-holding, over or under exposing the celluloid.
		Brakhage's tendency to weaken the figural impact of the image (through out-of-focus photography, spitting on the lens, and the like), coupled with his radical complication of motion (as described above) often does, indeed, lead to effects of just this kind, not in the space overhead, but on the screen itself.
	mfj-online.org /journalPages/MFJ32,33/grauer.html (7386 words)

	Beat Cinema 3: Stan Brakhage
		Stan Brakhage was born in an unwed mothers’ home in Kansas City, Missouri, on January 14, 1933, and soon adopted by Ludwig and Clara Brakhage.
		Among the few public comments Brakhage made on his childhood was a catalog of psychosomatic illnesses developed to defend against his mother, “who adopted me to save [her] marriage; and I failed.” Undoubtedly, this was at least partly responsible for Brakhage's fascination with the cinematic depiction of corporeality.
		Reflections was the first film Brakhage made after moving to New York, and is the story of a blind man in the city and a series of sexual encounters imagined by him as he walks the streets and climbs the stairs of his apartment building.
	andel.home.mindspring.com /brakhage_notes.htm (1751 words)

	by Brakhage
		The first Stan Brakhage film I saw was either the one shot through a crystal ash tray (The Text of Light) or the one projected on a wall in the fine arts gallery at CU -- Boulder, across the hall from the big classroom where he taught film for many years.
		I spotted Brakhage standing near the door after one screening and sidled up to him to say, you know, these monkeys showed the film completely out of registration yesterday so that the colors were a riotous blur.
		Brakhage made it after emptying out some of the light fixtures of his home in the Colorado mountains, where he had noticed dead moths collecting, and gathering other bits of organic debrus.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/bybrakha.html (1583 words)

	Serious Mothlight: For Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Brakhage often limited his verbal explanation of the films to citations of lines or stanzas from poems by writers including Charles Olson and Ronald Johnson.
		Brakhage was a poet of his medium, an artisan attentive to the plastic possibilities offered by cinema as a tool.
		Brakhage’s ambition was closest to the global project announced by Sergei Eisenstein: to place images within the workings of thought, in the foldings and unfoldings of its strata, its volumetrics, its complexity.
	www.rouge.com.au /1/brakhage.html (2262 words)

	Celluloid hero: P. Adams Sitney on Stan Brakhage - Passages - Obituary ArtForum - Find Articles
		STAN BRAKHAGE'S DEATH at seventy, on March 9, 2003, marked the end of the most astonishing career in the 108-year history of the cinema.
		Brakhage virtually invented and singularly dominated the characteristic genre of American avantgarde cinema: the crisis film, that lyric articulation of the moods and observations of the filmmaker, following a rhythmical association of images without a predetermined scenario or enacted drama.
		Only Essential Brakhage (Documentext, 2001), a compendium of his five previous volumes, was in print when he died, but the same publisher has just issued Telling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker, a volume of the pieces Brakhage wrote in the '90s for Musicworks.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_1_42/ai_108691746 (744 words)

	Stan Brakhage's Characteristics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Brakhage's intent in his films was to "show sights" rather that "sharing sights." He created a film to show the viewer what it was that he saw.
		Brakhage often scratched or painted on the film himself.
		This was to represent the colors and lines that he saw when he viewed the images under his eyelids.
	people.wcsu.edu /mccarneyh/fva/b/SBrakhage_char.html (138 words)

	Stan Brakhage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Stan Brakhage (born 1933) completed his first film, Interim, in 1952 at the age of nineteen, and as of 1998 has completed 300 personal, independent works ranging in length from 9 seconds to four hours and incorporating a wide variety of innovative and uniquely expressive forms and techniques.
		Brakhage has lectured extensively over the past 35 years at universities, colleges, museums, galleries, film societies and film festivals throughout the world, his interests and areas of knowledge including the histories and aesthetics of music, painting, poetry and film.
		Since 1986 Brakhage has been living in the town of Boulder, where he gives ongoing support to many younger filmmakers as well as continuing his own prolific output of work, creating work that is photographed, hand-painted on film and, most recently, films created by scratching and gouging the film emulsion itself.
	www.sci.fi /~phinnweb/links/cinema/underground/brakhage (267 words)

	Stan Brakhage in Montreal
		From 1952 onwards the American filmmaker Stan Brakhage has made more than 250 films, most of them silent, and varying in length from 9 seconds to 4 hours, that continue to investigate the act of vision in its multifarious forms.
		Stan Brakhage will be present to introduce and discuss his films.
		First part of what is considered Brakhage's major work, in which he develops with perfection the forms of visual expression so particular to and characteristic of his films.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/stanbrakhage.html (795 words)

	Stan Brakhage, 1933-2003 \| MetaFilter
		Stan was my professor for two semesters at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
		Stan Brakhage once recalled a debate he had with director Robert Wise about Hollywood "co-opting" the term "independent film".
		I had the pleasure of seeing Stan Brakhage speak at Wayne State University back in the early '90's when I was a film student there.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/24151 (924 words)

	Frame Enlargements from Stan Brakhage films, most of them discussed in the 2002 issue of "Chicago Review" on Brakhage
		All images from Brakhage films here are reproduced by permission of the Estate of Stan Brakhage and may not be reproduced elsewhere, including on the Internet, except by permission of Marilyn Brakhage (email her at vams@shaw.ca).
		The perceived imagery in Brakhage's work depends very much on movement and montage, to the extent that some things a viewer is convinced are contained in a single image are in fact only the product of movements within a shot, or/and of juxtapositions from shot to shot.
		Descriptions of these and other Brakhage films, provided by Brakhage himself, can be found in the Brakhage section of the on-line catalog of Canyon Cinema as well as in the "B" section" of the on-line catalog of the Filmmakers Cooperative.
	www.fredcamper.com /Film/BrakhageS.html (1343 words)

	Avant-Garde Filmmaker Stan Brakhage Dies At Age 70
		Stan Brakhage is survived by his second wife, Marilyn Brakhage, his first wife, Jane Brakhage, and seven children.
		Stan Brakhage has given me a greater understanding of light love and liberty and the importance of doing what you are.
		Stan Brakhage had a distinct intellectual presence and the one thing I remember was that he thought of video as a solemn curse and evil.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_030310brakhage.html (2898 words)

	Stan Brakhage on the Web: sites with writings about, writings by, and interviews with Stan Brakhage on the Internet
		If you are unfamiliar with Stan Brakhage, see my Stan Brakhage: A Brief Introduction (also available in a Portuguese translation), my longer general introduction, and my short biography.
		Stan Brakhage: A Brief Introduction, also available in a Portuguese translation, written for the 5th Belo Horizonte International TIM Short Film Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
		Descriptions of most of Brakhage's films, as provided by him, are now on-line as part of the on-line Canyon Cinema rental catalog; see the whole catalog for the films Brakhage made in collaboration with others.
	www.fredcamper.com /Film/BrakhageL.html (4019 words)

	Chicago Review
		Brakhage’s interest in American experimental poetry (of the Pound/Olson/Stein variety) led him to a series of correspondence with such poets as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, and Ronald Johnson.
		In his letters, Brakhage’s ebullient personality shines through – he is chatty, insightful and eager to discuss personal plans, poetry, or his own cinematic aesthetics.
		Stan Brakhage Correspondences includes essays from leading Brakhage scholars, covering over four decades of his work and focusing on his overall project and individual films.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /orgs/review/index_474_481.shtml (223 words)

	Stan Brakhage: A Short Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The operating myth that I insist I don't believe is that the consciousness of Stan Brakhage had such power in the world that his passing created sudden vacuums in the air — as far away as the other side of the continent.
		At the moment that a few seconds of a Brakhage film appear to be establishing a pattern, he breaks the pattern, and his purpose in doing so was not simply to be contrary.
		Brakhage's films serve as eye-training, both for seeing other films and as an opening onto more imaginative ways of seeing the world.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/26/brakhage_intro.html (780 words)

	Stan Brakhage
		Brakhage challenged the senses of his audience with confusing, disarming, sometimes disturbing scenes accompanied by discordant music.
		Brakhage pioneered cinemagrphic effects now considered mainstays, such as out of focus scenes that suddenly pop into focus.
		Brakhage was at the forefront of a movement that played with perspective, narrative and rhythm by borrowing from poetic imagery and jagged symphonic music.
	www.yborfilmfestival.com /2003/stan_brakhage.html (429 words)

	Stan Brakhage Rocks
		Brakhage developed a new autobiographical art film - 300 films later he is one of our most respected filmmakers.
		Brakhage has also written several books and been a professor of film studies.
		Through interviews, excerpts from Brakhage's works, on-site cinematography and a haunting score, Shedden captures Brakhage's humanity by showing his vulnerability in relationships, illnesses, fears and artistic blocks.
	www.speakeasy.org /wfp/39/brakhage.html (352 words)

	Stan Brakhage
		Brakhage was among the first filmmakers to physically alter the filmstrip itself for metaphorical effect.
		Brakhage signals the blindness of his protagonist by physically scratching out his eyes, and splices in bits of film negative to convey the sense of experience the world as a blind man might, not as something seen, but something pictured.
		Stan Brakhage died of cancer on March 8, 2003, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/brakhage.html (3073 words)

	The Criterion Collection: by Brakhage—an anthology
		Treating each frame as a miniature canvas, Brakhage can produce only a quarter- to a half-second of film a day, but his visionary style of image-making has changed everything from cartoons and television commercials to MTV music videos and the work of such mainstream moviemakers as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, and Oliver Stone.
		Criterion is proud to present 26 masterworks by Stan Brakhage in high-definition digital transfers made from newly minted film elements.
		The high- definition transfers were made on a Spirit Datacine under the supervision of scholar Fred Camper, who was selected by Stan Brakhage to ensure the accuracy of the recorded images.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=184 (423 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Stan Brakhage: Creating "A World of Love" through Poetry and Film
		When the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage died in 2003, he was mourned not only by visual artists, but also by poets.
		Born in 1933, Brakhage was adopted by a couple hoping to stabilize their failing marriage; he eventually spent much of his childhood with his mother in Denver, Colorado.
		Brakhage began to make films that discarded linear narration and focused instead on perception.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5922 (377 words)

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