Stan Brakhage
Birthday:
January 14, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Birth Name:
Robert Sanders
Stan Brakhage was born on January 14, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA as Robert Sanders. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Loom (1986), Persian Series (2001) and The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000). He was married to Marilyn Jull and Jane Brakhage. He died on March 9, 2003 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
Art is a sense of magic.
Art is a sense of magic.
Flourescents turn everyone into German Expressionism.
Flourescents turn everyone into German Expressionism.
There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.
We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.
I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
No one is out to get you. It's just that...people are monkeys.
No one is out to get you. It's just that...people are monkeys.
I met [Jackson Pollock] one time when I accompanied a friend who was invited with other critics to go see some new paintings in his famous L...Show more »
I met [Jackson Pollock] one time when I accompanied a friend who was invited with other critics to go see some new paintings in his famous Long Island barn. Evidently Pollock was dead drunk, immobile and silent in a corner. After a moment, while looking at the traces of paint with which Pollock covered the canvas that was stretched across the floor, one of the critics risked a few words, talking about 'chance operation.' Pollock, awaking slowly from his drunken stupor, repeats the words, 'Chance operation?'. He then takes a paintbrush, dips it into a pot of paint and, with one movement of his arm, flings the paint across the length of the room, squarely hitting the doorknob! Show less «
