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A SNAIL\u2019S TRAIL IN THE MOONLIGHT: STAN BRAKHAGE 1933-2003
\n<\/strong>Tuesday 29 April 2003
\nLondon The Other Cinema<\/p>\nPROGRAMME<\/strong><\/p>\nSelections from audio tapes made for friends by Stan Brakhage, c. 1990s
\n<\/em><\/p>\nIntroduction by Pip Chodorov<\/p>\n
Pip Chodorov, A Visit to Stan Brakhage, 2003, 15 min <\/strong><\/p>\nStan Brakhage, Mothlight, 1963, 4 min
\n<\/strong>suggested by Jonas Mekas<\/em><\/p>\nMarie Menken, Notebook, 1962-63, 10 min<\/strong>
\nBruce Baillie, Rolls, 1967-70, 7 min
\n<\/strong>suggested by P. Adams Sitney<\/em><\/p>\nColin Still, Brakhage on Brakhage, 1996\/2002, 9 min<\/strong><\/p>\nStan Brakhage, Songs 4 \u2013 7, 1966, 8mm, 10 min<\/strong><\/p>\nWords from A.L. Rees<\/em><\/p>\nStan Brakhage, The Dante Quartet, 1987, 8 min
\n<\/strong>suggested by Phil Solomon<\/em><\/p>\nPhil Solomon, Stan Editing “Panels for the Walls of Heaven”, 2003, 7 min (excerpt)<\/strong><\/p>\nStan Brakhage & Phil Solomon, Concrescence, 1996, 3 min<\/strong><\/p>\nStan Brakhage reading “The City of Dreadful Night” by James Thomson (BV)<\/em><\/p>\nCourtney Hoskins, Gossamer Conglomerates, 2001, 5 min
\n<\/strong>Mary Beth Reed, Moonstreams, 2000, 10 min
\n<\/strong>suggested by Ken Jacobs and Pip Chodorov<\/em><\/p>\nKen & Nisi Jacobs, Keeping an Eye on Stan, 2003, 8 min (excerpt) <\/strong><\/p>\nStan Brakhage, Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars In The Human Mind, 1997, 17 min<\/strong><\/p>\nCharles Ives “General William Booth Enters Into Heaven”<\/em>
\n suggested by Peter Kubelka<\/em><\/p>\n…<\/p>\n
Announcement of Stan Brakhage\u2019s Death, and Statement on his Life
\n<\/strong>Written by Marilyn Brakhage and released March 10, 2003.<\/strong><\/p>\nBrakhage, James Stanley (Stan). Died Sunday afternoon, March 9, 2003, about 2:10 PM Pacific Time at Victoria Hospice in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, after a brave and difficult struggle with cancer. His wife, Marilyn, was with him.<\/p>\n
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1933, Stan grew up chiefly in Denver, Colorado and lived for many years in Rollinsville and later in Boulder, Colorado, as well as spending earlier periods in both New York City and San Francisco. Most recently of Victoria, British Columbia, Stan was a world-renowned artist, a creative genius whose complex, brilliant and amazingly prolific body of work in both film and writing earned him a place of prominence within the American avant-garde film movement as well as the entire contemporary art world. With major collections of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, and other museums, universities, and private collections around the continent and the world, Stan has been an inspiration to countless students, fellow artists, and so many others, through his films, his writings, his lectures and public appearances, and his work as Instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.<\/p>\n
Most especially, Stan has been an enormous presence in the lives of all who knew him, \u201ca giant among us,\u201d as a friend said. His great love for family and friends, and unending wonder at the world, the strength of his physical presence, the challenge of his mind, the integrity of his being, the light in his eyes, the amazing life-force that he was, will be a huge loss for all of us.<\/p>\n
True to form, Stan spent his final weeks and days scratching on film and drawing pictures of his visions, both internal and external, as he worked through his illness. He expressed much love and kindness, and gratitude to others, and said, \u201cI\u2019ve had a really good life,\u201d and \u201cLife is great.\u201d He worried for the world, and he continued to care for and to protect his art, and that of others.<\/p>\n
In his well known Metaphors on Vision<\/em> of 1963, Stan had written of film artists creating \u201cwhere fear before them has created the greatest necessity,\u201d and that \u201cThey are essentially preoccupied by and deal imagistically with \u2014 birth, sex, death, and the search for God.\u201d Speaking recently of his life, he stated that most of all he had wanted to GIVE something to people \u2014 through<\/em> the arts, through music and painting. He said, \u201cI wanted to give them God.\u201d<\/p>\nStan is survived by seven children and 14 grandchildren. He will be deeply missed by his wife, Marilyn, and sons Anton and Vaughn, and by his first wife, Jane, and their five children, Myrrena, Crystal, Neowyn, Bearthm and Rarc.<\/p>\n
Funeral services will be held at St. Mary\u2019s Anglican Church on Elgin Road, Victoria, British Columbia, on Friday, March 14, at 3:00 pm.<\/p>\n
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