from one extremity to the other of ...

from one extremity to the other of Stan Brakhage's career, the quality mostly often ascribed to his work has been "visionary". Certainly many of the statements the filmmaker has made across the years concerning his motives and meanss have evoked such an understanding. Indeed, he has encouraged the exhibition of a critical vocabulary concerning his work that center around the presentation of a "way of seeing." However, Brakhage has also insisted, from the real beginning of his film career, with the relationship of his film work to the world around him. The films themselves testify to