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Stan Brakhage, "Mothlight" (1963)

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rhymeswithhonda (6 days ago) Show Hide
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this really needs to be seen on the big screen to fully appreciate its beauty.
thenewbillyzero (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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To comment strictly on the accusations that Stan was influenced by drugs, that is actually false. He did not take drugs. Not all art is influenced by substance.
123andcut (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Brakhage used innovative materials to make images in ways that did not depend on how cameras were typically designed and used by the commercial film industries. This action is not merely artistically innovative; it is a political act that resists "the authority ... of industrial mediation," that is to say, capitalism.
thephantomghoul (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Brakhage doesn't age well.
dannyman90 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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..seriously? epic?

I think Brakhage might scoff at that description
professionallynasty (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Wow, thats so cerebral and cutting edge...my pants are on fire...I'm going to bludgeon people over the head with my weighty knowledge of film now.

Bye.
misteromeara (1 month ago) Show Hide
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well with a name like professionallynasty you wouldn't expect an insightful comment would you? brakhage did this stuf LONGGGG before anyone had a PC or digital camera or anyone else even thought of doing it. so put it in context. laughing at brakage in the 21st century is like looking at the pioneers from the 1800s and saying 'how come they didn't just drive out west?"
21stCenturyPanda (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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What about people like Norman McLaren? He was doing this sort of experimental stuff before Brakhage, and just look at some of Isidore Isou's stuff: again before Brakhage.

So as for that pioneers comment, no, it's not the same at all. Cars didn't exist in the 1800's, but Brakhage's style of experimental filmmaking was around long before he himself was.
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well, all those 'cool' and 'cutting edge' effects you see nowadays on modern video/cinema production like bursts of light, scratched film, cutaways, etc. (and I can mention you hundreds of movies, tv credits, videoclips, etc. that make use of them) have been DIRECTLY influenced by the amazing works of Brakhage.
professionallynasty (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Who was influenced by...?

Don't get me wrong I like his work...but some of the comments here seem a little too contrived, pithy, falsely intellectual and patently high handed for my taste...but whatever.... bon ton roulette!

That's why I'm not majoring in Film Studies.
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