Stan Brakhage - I...Dreaming (1988)

A video from Stan Brakhage.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Stan
• Brakhage
• Dreaming

[neonknights]

Then what is a film? Stories played by actors? It's called the theatre. Stories told from a narrative point of view? It's called literature. THIS is a film.

[jblacktree]

He scratched the emulsion frame by frame. Hard work if you've ever tried it ...at 24 per second,,,

[Roboberto]

Brakhage didn't make video; he made film. He made only silent films; never used a soundtrack.

[AnitaWoronov]

and what about music?

who's playing?

[reesc]

would some1 mind telling me whether this is 8, 16 or 35mm please.

is there any way of determining from watching?

[jacks17]

Neonknights, this is merely foregrounding the process called film.

[prolsit]

oh man...

[branwyn2]

I met Stan years ago. Didn't like his work much then...he tried to convince us that his

eyesight was physiologically different than most people and that he saw things the way he filmed them.

[PretentiousProducts]

I feel sorry for those who will dismiss the films of Brakhage out of simple conventional habit. He has much to offer to the mind that is willing to exercise his or her emotional intelligence and imagination. If all one person is able or willing to see is a "crappy film with no music and messy splotches"...well, it's statements like those that are ringing the death toll to artistic American cinema(vs big-box theater entertainment).

[yonskii]

you are the pretentious one.

[superhappylucky]

More like Stan "Dreckhage" with the emphasis on "dreck"! What an irritating, obnoxious and arrogant piece of youknowhat!!! Just the sort of idiot savante material pretentious film snobs cling on to so they can fling "Stan Dreckhage" around at boring cocktail parties. Oh yeah, and thank god Stan is no longer here - now we don't have to suffer anymore of his infantile meanderings on film.