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 BrakhageIt is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.
Stan BrakhageThe Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
Stan BrakhageA 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.
Stan BrakhageHow many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
Stan BrakhagePeter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.
Stan Brakhage