By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two

“Brakhage Anthology: Volumes One and Two. So I studied at the University of Colorado. Stan Brakhage was one of my professors. The first movie I saw of his was Mothlight, which… Well, you just have to see it, but it’s a collection of… he emptied out a bunch of light fixtures in the ’60s and pasted them onto clear strips of celluloid and had that developed, and so what you see is a flutter of shadow and light. He was trying to create what your eyes see in film.”

“Okay, and here we have By Brakhage, and this is An Anthology. This is Anthology: Volume Two. I just– I love someone who’s going to take a… take a roll of film, shoot on it, and then scrape it up and draw on it and freak it around. Very punk rock to me, Stan Brakhage.”

“Now I’m going to blow your mind, probably somebody you’ve never heard of: Stan Brakhage. I came to him because I took a film course by the late, great P. Adams Sitney... He put on a film called Window Water Baby Moving, which was the equivalent of seeing Jackson Pollock after a lifetime of seeing nothing but naturalism and realism. He is the godfather of experimental filmmaking... Be patient with this... It’s extraordinary in so many ways. Painterly is one of the words.”