In
reading Essential Brakhage I was extremely inspired pass through the
translucence of aesthetics and search for much more in the theory (and
hopefully in the future, the praxis) of film. I found Stan Brakhage’s
vision of "an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective…(p.12)" a
very important addition to the exploration of what is art and what it
could be.
It is
pertinent that in this modern time we realize the change in perception
that has occurred as a result of "an age which artificially seeks to
project itself materialistically because it has blinded itself to almost
all external reality within eyesight…(p.13)" I think this revelation
is very important to artists who want to help the world evolve in different
spectrums of reality. A new level of artistic exchange could occur,
"motion of picture being the original magic of medium (p.21)," if audiences
could be deprogrammed and as an infant has, "an eye which does not respond
to the name of everything…(p.12)"
With this
in mind I must quote Brakhage in that "The ‘absolute realism’ of the
motion picture is unrealized, therefore potential magic (p.23)." Attempts
at this unrealized "absolute realism" I am sure will be full of much
trial and error for "The artist must be given more than enough rope.
He hangs himself for the experience of it (p.74)." But as we should
feel free to say, "anything is possible (p.18)" and very well worth
the effort to prove so.