As it's all been said before, Stan Brakhage is a very influential non-narrative American film maker and an important member of experimental films. Most of his film consisted of painting each frame on 35 mm film. This technique is painstakingly slow and to him it was well worth the wait. One of the four film from Dante Quartet, Hell Itself, was created in this very manner. The film is about 6 minutes long so thousands of frames to be painted. The film consist of random timed frames with variations of the same color scheme of mostly part reds, browns and greens. As am artist myself, I really appreciate the time and dedication to what Brakhage does in his films.
With that said, I don't get his work. I personally do not like abstract art in the least. It has no context regardless of what anyone says and can be created by anyone. Granted Brakhage works takes a lot of time it could easily be duplicated. Its really only innovative because no one else had done it before in the context of film. I get that its passionate and possibly meaningful to the artist but we as audience can only assume what the context, which in most cases are implied in the title. And when pieces are untitled they really should be considered "art for art sake" and nothing more.
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