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Poetic Myths of Stan Brakhage
Vokjan, Viktor ; Skala, Petr (advisor) ; Vančát, Jaroslav (referee)
Average American does not desire to watch a movie that has no single meaning and is layered and requires thinking and some fantasy. He/she wants to see things he/she is dreaming about. Most likely those are materialistic and earthly things. Hollywood film studios largely fulfill this desire. Nevertheless, there are people a bit different then that.
In his early works Breakage?s style was, as he had named it himself, ?surrealistic neorealist?, but soon enough he starts experimenting with a new formal approach and it could b named as abstract expressionism. According to the style in painting, represented by Jackson Pollock.
Rituals of the family life and the family were predominant subjects of his work of late fifties and early sixties. Birth, sex and death are three corner stones of his film work.
During this period he had written his famous book ?Metaphors on Vision?. It is a kind of a key, a manual to his films.
?Window Water Baby Moving? and ?Thigh Line Lyre Triangular? are film about the birth of his first two children. Unusually to most of his films there is a unity of place and time in this film.
In his film ?Sirius Remembered? Brakhage is dealing with the matters of death and physical decay.
Brakhage`s most ambitious work of the sixties was ?Dog Star Man?. This film marks a definitive end of his ?lyrical? style, focused on impressions of an individual. Later in his work he turns more into the more abstract metaphysical subjects.
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