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After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.

Stan Brakhage

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,

Stan Brakhage

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?

Stan Brakhage

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

Born: January 14, 1933

Died: March 9, 2003 (aged 70)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Mothlight (1963)
Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)
The Dante Quartet (1987)
Cat's Cradle (1959)

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