Brakhage

I love the work of Stan Brakhage, especially the hand-painted films. For him, film is about seeing, pure visual awarness dissociated from narrative, perspective or compositional logic. His work explores all forms of vision, not just the open-eye vision of ordinary experience, but also peripheral and hypnagogic vision, visual thinking, dream, hallucination and entoptic imagery. Like Dziga Vertov, he was interested in that which is unique to film and could not be translated to other arts such as theatre or literature.