During this period, he and his twin brother Mike Kuchar were making 8mm movies, which were showcased in the then-burgeoning underground film scene alongside films by Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage.

The film is part of the by Brakhage: an Anthology Criterion collection DVD.

Over the course of five decades, Brakhage created a large and diverse body of work, exploring a variety of formats, approaches and techniques that included handheld camerawork, painting directly onto celluloid, fast cutting, in-camera editing, scratching on film, collage film and the use of multiple exposures.

Brakhage would collaborate with the latter two, making two films with Cornell ( Gnir Rednow and Centuries of June ) and using Cage's music for the soundtrack of his first color film, In Between.

In 1958, Jane gave birth to the first of the five children they would have together, an event Brakhage recorded for his 1959 film Window Water Baby Moving.

When Brakhage's early films had been exhibited in the 1950s, they had often been met with derision, but in the early 1960s Brakhage began to receive recognition in exhibitions and film publications, including Film Culture, which gave awards to several of his films, including The Dead, in 1962.

Brakhage began teaching film history and aesthetics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969, commuting from his home in Colorado.

In the late 1980s, Brakhage returned to making sound films, with the four-part Faustfilm cycle, and also completed the hand-painted film, The Dante Quartet.

At the time of his death, Brakhage was also working the Chinese Series, made by scratching directly on to film.

The Brakhage films, comprising his edited originals, intermediate elements, and other original material, are housed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive, where a long-term project is underway to preserve and restore his entire film output.

The Musical were made while they were students at the University of Colorado film school, studying under both Stan Brakhage and Jerry Aronson.

It was during this return that he began to once more immerse himself in the artistic scene of California, befriending the film maker Stan Brakhage, who had been inspired by Fireworks, and the two collaborated on producing a film, but it was confiscated at the film lab for obscenity and presumably destroyed.

It is distinctive for its holdings by visual artists that range from classics by Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, and Fernand Léger to extensive contemporary work by William Klein, Derek Jarman, Bruce Conner, Marcel Broodthaers, Nam June Paik, and leading experimental artists who challenged the form and content of film, such as Paul Sharits and Stan Brakhage.

As P. Adams Sitney has pointed out, in the work of Stan Brakhage and other American experimentalists of early period, film is used to express the individual consciousness of the maker, a cinematic equivalent of the first person in literature.

Some have questioned the status of the films made in the academy, but longtime film professors such as Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, and many others, continued to refine and expand their practice while teaching.

* Fred Camper's archive-articles on Stan Brakhage and other experimental film

It is also not really art for art's sake, like the work of Stan Brakhage, for instance, but is generally acknowledged, rather, as a poetic view of life transferred onto film.

He was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial as a major film influence alongside Stan Brakhage, less than a year after he committed suicide in San Bernardino, California on March 14, 2003.

Her first experience with experimental film was through Stan Brakhage, her and Tenney's friend.

Canada's Michael Snow, Americans Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Jack Smith.

* January 14 – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker ( d. 2003 )

Although Deren is usually credited as its principal artistic creator, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who knew the couple, has claimed in his book Film at Wit's End that Meshes was in fact largely Hammid's creation, and that their marriage began to suffer when Deren received more credit.

The title of the first song on Dots and Loops, " Brakhage ", is a nod to experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

Deren was a muse and inspiration to such up-and-coming, avant-garde filmmakers as Curtis Harrington, Stan Brakhage, and Kenneth Anger, who emulated her independent, entrepreneurial spirit.

James Stanley Brakhage ( ; January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003 ), better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker.

Interested in mythology and inspired by music, poetry, and visual phenomena, Brakhage sought to reveal the universal in the particular, exploring themes of birth, mortality, sexuality, and innocence.

Born Robert Sanders in Kansas City, Missouri on January 14, 1933, Brakhage was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth by Ludwig and Clara Brakhage.

As a child, Brakhage was featured on radio as a boy soprano and sang in church choirs and as a soloist at other events.

Together, Brakhage, Jordan, Tenney and Subotnick formed a drama group called the Gadflies.

Brakhage briefly attended Dartmouth College on a scholarship before dropping out to make films.

In 1953, Brakhage moved to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Art Institute, then called the California School of the Arts.

Brakhage spent the next few years living in near poverty, depressed about what he saw as the failure of his work.

While living in Denver, Brakhage met Mary Jane Collom, whom he married in late 1957.

Known as Jane Brakhage, she became his first wife.

He couldn't afford to have anyone mess around with them, he said.

And you know you will always wonder all of your life whether it was because you wanted him so bad that you didn't get him, and you can feel nearly sorry enough to cry when you think of that other guy, the chump who begged you to marry him, the one with the plastered hair and the car he couldn't afford and the too-shiny shoes.

His family couldn't afford baseball equipment, so he practiced by hitting bottle caps with sticks.

The Jupiter ACE was new to the market and the designers couldn't afford to use an uncommitted logic array ( ULA ), a design approach then gaining popularity in other computers ( such as the ZX 81 ) to reduce component count, because these weren't economical in small quantities.

Before that, tourists who couldn't afford to stay in a hotel either slept in their cars or pitched their tents in fields alongside the road.

The D-Day scenes in Saving Private Ryan were shot with the cooperation of the Irish army because the French couldn't afford to close down the real Omaha Beach due to it being a monument.

According to his son's documentary film in 2003 the family couldn't afford pencils but made their own charcoal sticks from burnt twigs so that Louis could earn a little money from drawings and later by playing piano to accompany silent movies.

Mercer Ellington has stated that Juan Tizol invented the melody to " Caravan " in 1936 as a result of his days studying music in Puerto Rico ; where they couldn't afford much sheet music so the teacher would turn the music upside down after they had learned to play it right-side up.

I asked my dad for a set of drums for my tenth birthday but he came home with a Sears Silvertone guitar ... I had wanted a set of drums, but my folks couldn't afford them, so I got the guitar.

After losing another duel of Bible quotes with Mother Maria, Smith acknowledges that he has always wanted to be an architect, but couldn't afford the schooling.

Once, after spending his allowance on a large bag of sweets, he met a young boy outside the store who couldn't afford any.

In 1973, his first year with the Padres, he began buying blocks of tickets to Padres games for families who couldn't afford to go to games, in a program known as " pavilions.

At the market place of Wijk bij Duurstede is one of the few church towers in the Netherlands with a flat roof, so built because the bishop couldn't afford to build a spire.

Hingham cemetery is unique in that it once had an area known as potters field where people that committed suicide or couldn't afford to buy a plot were placed.

Seattle group Green River chose to record their Dry as a Bone EP for Pavitt's new label in June 1986 ; Pavitt couldn't afford to release it until the following year.

Family finances required Joe to take 12-hour shifts in the mill, and since education at the time was a luxury the Jackson family couldn't afford, Jackson was uneducated.

These include tricking a crooked lawyer attempting to sue Strickland into making it appear as though he is the one who injured his plaintiff and forcing a veterinarian who was shaking him down on costly and unnecessary treatments for a soldier's cat to approve the cat's file ( Hank told the vet's customers about a completely inefficient imaging machine the vet couldn't afford ).

They decided they couldn't afford to take the time from their schedules unless it was a working vacation, and used the trip to research the defeat of the Admiral Graf Spee.

The same year he began working at a farm in Wersen near Osnabrück but gave up becoming a farmer as he couldn't afford to buy his own farm.

Therefore, Stapes fans couldn't afford enough tickets to make a team possible.

One of the casualties of the team's financial woes was Mullaney, who resigned after being told the team couldn't afford to meet his contract.

You know most of them couldn't afford to be there.

Because of the oil embargo of 1974, the Howard Johnson's restaurants and motor lodges, which maintained 85 % of revenues from travelers, lost profit when Americans couldn't afford to drive long trips or take frequent vacations.

He became quite popular and became known as " the poor man's counciler " as he offered to defend poor men when they couldn't afford a lawyer.