For this week I picked to watch three films
by Stan Brakhage.
Brakhage was a non-narrative filmmaker who is
considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th century experimental
film. He had a large body of work, in which he explored a variety of
formats. Some of the approaches and techniques included handheld
camerawork, painting directly onto celluloid, fast cutting, in-camera editing,
scratching on film and the use of multiple exposures.
In his work he explored themes of birth,
mortality, sexuality and innocence. Also they are noted for their
expressiveness and lyricism
From what I have viewed from his films. He explores
many different ideas of making a film. An example in the short film
"Window Water Baby Moving"he uses and handheld camera to film a
woman giving birth. the images jump around and has this depressing and off mood
to it. Another example is "The Dante Quartet" in this one there are
many different paint splatters stills formed into one film. The last
example is in "Preludes" which he takes what he did in "The
Dante Quartet" and add music to go with the stills.
"Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and
shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of
colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word." ~ Stan
Brakhage
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