Brakhage's films delight and incite...

Brakhage's films delight and incite with a restles unadulterated visual magnificence. Expanding the language of light, color, and visual metre he takes film far beyond its usual bondage to representation and story telling. From his stomach-turning notwithstanding vital film document of autopsies, The Act of Seeing with one's be in possession of eyes (1971) to his abstract and sumptuous hand-painted Persian Series (1990s) Brakhage's works extirpate established and comfortable ways of seeing. In all their manifestations, Brakhage's films call for active participation and opennes from viewers, and in cause to deviate ...