Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-Garde Filmmakers
by Stan Brakhage
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Author: Stan BrakhageEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-08
ISBN: 092970116X
Number of pages: 183
Publisher: McPherson
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Book Review: I loved this book
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved reading this book. If you like to really learn about the personal lives of filmmakers this is the book for you. Stan Brakhrage writes in an easy fun manner. It's an easy read and you can skip around the chapters and read about all your favorite film artists first. Marie Menken is my favorite, I would have loved to have hung out with her and the gang in that era. It's also very informative about their work too. There is a great story in the Marie Menken chapter on how Menken got into film by working with her husband, Willard Maas on his film, Geography of the Body. It describes how she used a magnifying glass to do the close ups, I tried it, it does work. The point being, it's not a lot of technical big words that sends you to the dictionary, it's down to earth and the information will stay with you long after you read it. You'll have great stories to tell while hanging out in the pub with other artists and a beer.
Summary of Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-Garde Filmmakers
Of all art forms, filmmaking is the one most taken for granted: no sooner is an artistic or technical advance made than its salient features are employed in the harness of commerce. Yet, innovation is almost always the province of individual expression. Film at Wit's End presents eight artists who have electrified American independent cinema across four decades: James Broughton, Bruce Conner, Maya Deren, Jerome Hill, Ken Jacobs, Christopher MacLaine, Marie Menken, and Sidney Peterson. Each of these filmmakers' lives and work is brought into sharp focus as we enter the art scenes of New York and San Francisco during times of ferment and controversy. Film at Wit's End tells marvelous tales of serendipitous encounters, of life lived at the edge of social disapproval, and of the insistent development of an art form.Performing Arts Books
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