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What do experimental cinema pioneer Stan Brakhage and five-time Oscar nominee (and Honorary Oscar winner) Sidney Lumet have in common? Both are filmmakers . . . and, well, that’s where the ...

What’s nifty about Sonic Youth’s SYR series is how it’s completely unlike the work the band releases on Geffen. What isn’t so nifty is that the last SYR recording came out half a decade ago. Koncertas ...

Stan Brakhage, one of the leading figures in American experimental cinema, died March 9 in Victoria, British Columbia. He was 70. The cause was cancer, his wife, Marilyn, said. In a career that began ...

Created over fifty years of ceaseless activity, filmmaker Stan Brakhage's body of nearly 400 films is notable for its dazzling kineticism, expressive camerawork and rich use of optical and painterly ...

Made in the years preceding Brakhage’s landmark light poem The Text of Light (1974), these seven silent shorts mainly hover between representation and abstraction, their soft focus, solid colors, and ...

Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but considered himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet—one who spoke in the language of film and measured ...

In memory of Stan Brakhage, a selection of his films is screened on 16mm film the first Sunday of every month, during the semester, in ATLAS 100 at 7:30 PM. Celebrating Stan pays homage to the ...

In anticipation of The Jag, a new play produced by yours truly, Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo present Jean-François Stévenin’s Mountain Pass on Friday.

This film is a limited portrait of Stan Brakhage. The subject attempts to describe the experience that he is involved in by means of immediately responding to the aural and visual stimuli which ...

Stan Brakhage is one of the most influential filmmakers in American avant-garde cinema, noted for his unflinching social commentaries and technical innovations. Over his nearly 40-year career, he has ...