Stan Brakhage - The Dante Quartet!!!

maybe a rare brakhage video from 87...!!




epic shit

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Film & Animation

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• Brakhage
• Stan_Brakhage
• hippie
• art
• crazy
• epic
• insane
• film
• independent

[watchukillme]

I had no idea how popular Stan really was. I'm his granddaughter and was feeling nostalgic. Thankyou for posting... it made my day.

[sleepinspring]

amazing!

[jminotaur]

watching stan brakhage in digital on youtube is like having oral sex through a thick brown paper bag

[filmsbydanbrowne]

@Shattersmith Actually he did not use drugs - his visionary work comes from his own unique interpretation of perception. His hand-painted films were rooted in a desire to present experiences beyond the realm of nameable 'things'. Certainly, some filmmakers of that generation were influenced by LSD but Brakhage was always far more under the influence of avant-garde art, ie painting (Abstract Expressionism), music (Cage, Tenney, Messiaen, even Bach) and poets (Pound, Stein, Olson, Creeley, etc).

[lucaspaulable]

oops nevermind thats was some stupid thing youtube has

[george4mon]

the 10 films or so i have seen of his are all the same!

[classics4life]

@watchukillme Why does this comment have "18" thumbs up?

[daxx0r]

I simply don't see what all the fuss is about - I appreciate that Brakhage was trying to say something with this video...

But all I can see is a mish-mash of abstract art. It doesn't really say anything to me, and I don't find it particularly beautiful either. It's so abstract, there's nothing to grasp onto and interpret. It evokes no emotions or deep thoughts in me.

What baffles me most though is that every other comment on here is suggesting this is the most wonderful thing ever made.

[MrFishus]

@Shattersmith Yes. Like anything slightly abstract and creative it must have been a product of drugs.

The concept of anyone being even slightly creative without being hopped-up hippies is a challenging thought indeed!

[Shattersmith]

..

Yes, Stan...I like LSD, too, you old hippy.

What, too direct? That IS what we're looking at, right? He liked LSD?

..

[CalentureAU]

@watchukillme

Your grandfather is one of my heroes. His work is unbelievably beautiful.

[truffaut90]

@forestrootshakyknees If she goes to the University of Memphis then she is totally legit, i've met his granddaughter briefly at Orientation there a few years ago. she was pretty cool.

[forestrootshakyknees]

@watchukillme

i call shenanigans.