A self-styled prodigy, Stan Brakhage left his mark on American avant-garde cinema not only through his films, of which there are hundreds, but also as a vocal proponent for an ideal of filmmaking as ...

Metaphors On Vision, Stan Brakhage’s first book, is highly peculiar for a fully fleshed out credo on cinema, for it contains prose poetry, scripts, script fragments, sketches, and letters. Jonas Mekas ...

Stan Brakhage, 70, a staggeringly prolific avant-garde filmmaker and theorist who explored birth, death, sex and mysticism, often in subversive and explicit ways, died March 9 at a hospital in ...

For more than half a century the American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage – who died in March 2003 after a long battle with cancer – has made over 300 of the most distinctive films ever made. But ...

Stan Brakhage, one of America’s most influential experimental filmmakers, died Sunday in a hospital in Victoria, Canada, after an eight-year struggle with cancer. He was 70. Over five decades, ...

Brakhage was a devout modernist, a firm believer that he was using cinema to express ideas that couldn't be conveyed any other way. That is, he aimed to minimize those aspects that mainstream cinema ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Cinema maverick Stan Brakhage ended his remarkable movie-making career teaching at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the Film Studies program. The maker ...

Stan Brakhage, one of the most revered and prolific of American experimental filmmakers, died Sunday March 9 in Victoria, British Columbia, of complications from an infection. He was 70. During his ...

In a prolific career spanning more than 50 years, Stan Brakhage produced an enormous body of work (around 400 films) of deep passion and daunting innovation in technique, form and content. He was a ...