Stan Brakhage Desisfilm

Calling Brakhage lazy, Sean2046, in any way is insane. The time that went into his films is remarkable. So what if his films are more about the visual? That's part of the beauty that is Brakhage...

if that comment about Brakhage and film being a silent experience why is that girl's i i8internal monologue even there? Answer: because unlike Anticipation of the Night or Fire of Waters this film a piece of self-indulgent crap.

Brakhage's is essentially a silent-film aesthetic. He wrote about how sound, when paired with image, tends to dominate the audience's perception of rhythm. In his sound films, he described the relation of sound/image as existing in parallel spaces, not interacting but coexisting. Brakhage might've disagreed that film belongs to prose; words are a filter, which provide a means to describe what one sees. Many of his films are concerned with returning the viewer to a pre-verbal way of seeing.

Shame that you had to tape this. Would have been nice to rip it off the DVD.

I know don't blame me i dont even know how to do that? ;)

i agree. i feel Brakhage was kinda lazy for not creating soundtracks for his films. having to find my own soundtrack (or watching silent) really sucks.

i like the repetitive in the movie. and then the music is not there so its showing the light. the evil is there so i am right.
the circle in one is shown i like that
thanx

Interesting, weird, creative and yes, poetic. But here's the argument I put forth to the Brakhaghe, Mekas and Deren's of the world: Film is prose, it belongs to prose. Home movies are poetry, cell phone shorts can be poetry; however, a complete filmmaker tells a story, ideally for around an hour and a half.

bullshit.

fuck your suspension of disbelief.

I see what you saying and it is a valid point. However, cinema is not prose. Nor is it poetry. Yes, cinema can be poetic but it an art by itself. If a director chooses to tell a story and have it linear based for 90mins that is their decision. Cinema as an artisitc medium is not solely limited to this use and Brakhage and Deren offer an alternative perfectly.