“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.” MadeFilmBlackWhiteColorDramaDiscoveryPerfectionGoldMade ItAestheticBlack And WhiteDeliberateSequenceFablesClimax Author:Stan Brakhage
“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.” ThinkingMeanLongArtMadeStillsFilmStruggleShapesPhotographyHistoricalSignificantCollectionsExceptionDevicesTrapsUsage Author:Stan Brakhage
“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?” KnowsMenDoeMadeLightEyeLawNamesImagineFieldsObjectsColorAdventurePerspectiveBabyPerceptionLogicGreenGrassRainbowCrawling Book:Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage Source: Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage
