Stan Brakhage Quotes

Stan Brakhage — American Director born on January 14, 1933, died on March 09, 2003

James Stanley Brakhage, better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film... (wikipedia)

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.

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

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

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

Stan Brakhage Quotes

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