After reading Patricia Moran's VJtheory.net article, our exposure to Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren's work seems germane to our purposes. Patricia defines the VJ space as non-narrative, immersive and experiential; an extension of avant-garde aesthetics.The links that Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren have to poetry are also interesting in light of Moran's article. Deren's master's thesis was titled "The Influence of the French Symbolist School on Anglo-American Poetry" and Wikipedia cites Brakhage's films as "noted for their expressiveness and lyricism". Both artist's films are quite abstract and visually-based as experiences. Deren's "The Very Eye of Night" was more interesting watching it this time through, though "Meshes of the Afternoon" and "Ritual in Transfigured Time" seem to convey something more important.
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