Genres: experimental

“One aspect of the film’s ambition is perhaps to extend the metaphor of film-as-music from the familiar brief lyric…into the equivalent of a feature-length movie, or saga, the subject of which is a family maturing and dividing.” – A.L. Rees, British Film Institute While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.” Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: “Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn,…

“One aspect of the film’s ambition is perhaps to extend the metaphor of film-as-music from the familiar brief lyric…into the equivalent of a feature-length movie, or saga, the subject of which is a family maturing and dividing.” – A.L. Rees, British Film Institute While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.” Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: “Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn,…

“One aspect of the film’s ambition is perhaps to extend the metaphor of film-as-music from the familiar brief lyric…into the equivalent of a feature-length movie, or saga, the subject of which is a family maturing and dividing.” – A.L. Rees, British Film Institute While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.” Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: “Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn,…

“One aspect of the film’s ambition is perhaps to extend the metaphor of film-as-music from the familiar brief lyric…into the equivalent of a feature-length movie, or saga, the subject of which is a family maturing and dividing.” – A.L. Rees, British Film Institute While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.” Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: “Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn,…

A cine-dance interpretation of the ballet “Totem,” made in collaboration with Alwin Nikolais and the Alwin Nikolais Dance Company.

“Touched” utilizes studio, verité and animation techniques. The bulk of the film was shot in Brockville in March, 1970, at a junior grade school. It attempts to show the reactions and relationships of children in an environment that encourages creativity.

“Les Tournesols Colores” is a differently timed and coloured version of “Les Tournesols”.

The memory of a nearly perfect evening. (RBE)

“Traces” synthesizes two trains of cinematic thought – the imagist/poetic/abstract tradition and the conceptual/critical tradition – to create a formal yet lyrical work which traces the story of light coursing through the world. Inherent in the methodology of this film is a critique of media representations of life and light. Therefore “Traces” is a composite, a setting one beside another of different kinds of representation: abstract, documentary, narrative and poetic. This setting side-by-side allows the spectator both the pleasure of engaging in the movement and development of the film and at the same time a critical purchase from which to…