Seeking Brakhage

Forward

Acknowledgements

Introduction by P. Adams Sitney

Bursts of Light

Eye-Training

Sheer Virtuosity

A Short Biography

Presenting Light

Senses Working Overtime

Acts of Seeing

Brakhage’s Contradictions

Three Myths

Political, And Not

Still Seeking Brakhage

Notes on Films

Nightcats

Dog Star Man, The Art of Vision

23rd Psalm Branch

My Mtn. Song 27

Sexual Meditation # 1: Motel

Western History, The Riddle of Lumen

Songs

Songs 7 and 13: Brakhage and Cezanne

Gadflies, Sketches, Airs, Window, Trio, Rembrandt, Ec. and Jane, Desert, Highs, Absence, The Dream, NYC, The Return, The Flower

The Governor

Sirius Remembered, The Weir-Falcon Saga, Creation, The Way to Shadow Garden, Thigh Line Lyre Triangular, Dog Star Man: Part II, The Horseman, the Woman and the Moth, The Peaceable Kingdom, The Process, The Wold-Shadow, Sexual Meditation: Room with View,  Sexual Meditation: Motel, Sexual Meditation: Open Field, Blue Moses, Mothlight, Fire of Waters, Angels, Sol, He Was Born, he suffered, he died, Nightmare Series,  I (Roman Numeral One)

Duplicity, Tortured Dust, Marilyn's Window, Matins, Loud Visual Noises, Kindering, I . . . Dreaming,  Faust's Other: An Idyll

Boulder Blues and Pearls and . . ., For Marilyn, Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse, Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse  City Streaming

Arabics

Earth Song of the Cricket, Cricket Requiem, The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels, ... (ellipses), Persian Series 1-5, Coupling

Brakhage by Shedden

In Jesus Name, The Baby Jesus, Jesus Wept, Christ on Cross, Jesus Trilogy, Coda, Panels for the Walls of Heaven (A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea, The Mammals of Victoria, The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him), Creation

Ascension, Resurrectus Est, Panels for the Walls of Heaven, Max

Trilogy (I Take These Truths We Hold These, I…),  Dark Night of the Soul

Mothlight

Viewing Brakhage

Which Version?

A Note on Projecting

Introduction to a Filmography

Filmography

A Note on the Images

About the Author