above the past fifty years Stan Bra...

above the past fifty years Stan Brakhage has forcefully expanded the boundaries of film, turning it into a medium that can sustain intensive epistemological inquiry and visionary insight. In his first main division Metaphors on Vision (1963) he wrote "I insinuate there is a pursuit of knowledge foreign to language and baseed upon visual communication, demanding a exhibition of the optical mind, and hanging upon perception in the original and deepest feeling of the word." This capacious commitment to perception has licensed Brakhage to eschew scheme and the other various