Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Week 7, on Stan Brakhage Metaphors on Vision

Brakhage's writing is beautiful, poetic. He emphasized on the importance of the primitive, or the "minds" eye in our consciousness. I watched his films "Moonlight" and "Window Water Baby Moving" and understood he used a lot of minds eye in the shooting. It seemed to me a bit too much. I am not sure we want to cling on the primitive side of vision after we human have spent a million years to climb the ladder of the food chain but to waste our gifted vision with better clarity, definition and resolution.

- Lily