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Stan Brakhage was an American experimental filmmaker known for his unique visual style and exploration of form. His works are typically characterized by abstract and surreal elements, profoundly influencing the development of cinematic art.

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Famous Stan Brakhage Quotes

“Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.”

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Author:Stan Brakhage

“A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.”

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“I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.”

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Book:Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980

Source: Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980

“I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.”

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“The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.”

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“Poetry is a totally different art than film.”

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Author:Stan Brakhage

About the Author

Born: January 14, 1933
Died: March 9, 2003
Known for: Filmmaker
Quotes: 21

Books & Sources

Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980Related source material

Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan BrakhageRelated source material

Stan Brakhage: an American independent film-makerRelated source material

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