Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage was born in Kansas City in 1933; an adopted child, he sang as a soprano in church choirs. He stayed at university for only two months and shot his first film at the age of nineteen. He made more than three hundred films, almost all silent, many of them scratched or painted directly onto the film stock, and said he wanted to imagine a world before language. He taught for more than twenty years at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, moved to Canada in 2002 and died in Victoria, British Columbia, in 2003.

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• CinemaDog Star ManStan Brakhage · 1964Cinema