We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.
Stan BrakhageThe Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
Stan BrakhageAfter wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.
Stan BrakhageI 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.
Stan Brakhage