Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker

"Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker is a collection of essays, photographs, personal statements and reminiscences about the celebrated "avant garde filmmaker who died in 2003. The director of nearly four hundred short films, including "Dog Star Man, parts I-IV, and The "Roman Numeral Series, Brakhage is widely recognized as one of the great artists of the medium. His short films eschewed traditional narrative structure and his innovations in fast cutting, hand-held camerawork and multiple superimpositions created an unprecedentedly rich texture of images that provided the vocabulary for the explosion of independent filmmaking in the 1960s. "Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker chronicles both the director's personal and formal development. The essays in this book--by historians, filmmakers and other artists--assess Brakhage's contributions to the aesthetic and political history of filmmaking, from his emergence on the film scene and the establishment of his reputation, to the early-1980s. The result is a remarkable tribute to this lyrical, visionary artist.

1. David E. James. Introduction. Stan Brakhage: The Activity of His Nature; 2. Parker Tyler Stan Brakhage; 3. Jonas Mekas. from "Notes on the New American Cinema"; 4. Jerome Hill Brakhage and Rilke; 5. Robert Kelly On the Art of Vision; 6. Edward Dorn. The First Time I Heard the Word "Brakhage"; 7. Annette Michelson Camera Lucida/ Camera Obscura; 8. James Tenney Brakhage Memoir; 9. David E. James Amateurs in the Industry Town: Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol in Los Angeles; 10. Carolee Schneemann It Is Painting; 11. R. Bruce Elder. Brakhage: Poesis; 12. Jonas Mekas Recollections of Stan Brakhage; 13. Nicky Hamlyn The Roman Numeral Series; 14. Bruce Baillie Letter re. Stan; 15. Craig Dworkin Stan Brakhage, Agrimoniac; 16. Chick Strand Brakhage Package; 17. P. Adams Sitney Brakhage's Faustian Psychodrama; 18. Willie Varela Stan Brakhage: American Visionary; 19. Tyrus Miller. Brakhage's Occasions: Figure, Subjectivity, and Avant-Garde Politics; 20. Abigail Child Notes on Sincerity and Irony; 21. Paul Arthur Becoming Dark With Excess of Light: The Vancouver Island Films; 22. Phil Solomon. As I Am Writing This Today