Table of Contents

Introduction Jerome Hill Marie Menken Sideny Peterson James Broughton Maya Deren Christopher MacLaine Bruce Conner Ken Jacobs Filmographies Index

About the Author

Stan Brakhage is the author of Film at Wit's End, Film Biographies, The Brakhage Lectures, and other books. Born January 14, 1933, Mr. Brakhage has been a professor of film studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for the past twenty years. He has received honorary doctorates from San Francisco Art Institute, California Institute of the Arts, and Bard College. His other honors include eight grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award, the MacDowell Medal, a Telluride Film Festival Medallion, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Denver International Film Festival.

Reviews

"Brakhage's profiles of eight avant-garde filmmakers have a conversational, relaxed flow.... His personal insight into their lives deepens his understanding of their aims and techniques."-Publishers Weekly "Intelligent, warm and often highly personal tributes to eight of his fellow filmmakers... Recommended."-Classic Images "A fascinating collection of essays that do not depend upon, but can only be enhanced by, readers' knowledge of avant-garde film."-Columbus Dispatch "A basic book in the canon of experimental cinema."-Film Quarterly "Highly recommended."-Midwest Book Review "Stimulating."-American Cinematographer "An indispensable book in the study of film art."-Small Press Magazine