Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990

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by Jerry White

Type

Filmmakers' writings

Subject

Director > Stan Brakhage

Keywords

Stan Brakhage, experimental

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Collection

Film and Media Studies

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 379 pages
9 ½ x 8 inches (24 x 20.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-77112-303-7

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Book Presentation:
This is a collection of writings by the giant of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage, that shows him in a completely new light, as part of world cinema.

For the duration of the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine Rolling Stock, mostly publishing reports from the Telluride Film Festival. These reports show that Brakhage was keenly interested in world cinema, anxious to meet and dialogue with filmmakers of many different stripes.

The book also contains substantial discussion of Brakhage's work in light of the filmmakers he encountered at Telluride and discussed in Rolling Stock. Long chapters are given over to Soviet filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Larissa Shepitko, and Sergei Parajanov, as well as the German filmmaker Hans-J rgen Syberberg. Brakhage was a keen viewer of these filmmakers and their contemporaries, both at Telluride and in his role as teacher at the University of Colorado, and Stan Brakhage and Rolling Stock attempts to place his work alongside theirs and thus reclaim him for world cinema.

The book's appendices reprint letters Brakhage wrote to Stella Pence (Telluride's co-founder and managing director), as well as summaries of his work for Telluride and a brace of difficult-to-find reviews.

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