"The scant attention given Stan Brakhage's one-man reinvention of motion pictures is a scandal of academic cinema studies. This generous collection of essays and appreciations, contributed by a wide variety of poets, critics, scholars, and fellow filmmakers, is most illuminating-it beams a welcome light on the terra incognita of Brakhage's accomplishment."-J. Hoberman, Village Voice film critic "Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker contains ... Read morearguments and perspectives on Brakhage's work I've not seen before. The combination of academic perspectives and those of filmmakers is an especially original and appropriate way to treat Brakhage, who always hoped his films would inspire new ways of seeing and making, and is a major strength of this fine book, which offers a variety of new and interesting ways of thinking about Brakhage's films."-Fred Camper, independent film scholar "To sing in praise of Stan Brakhage is to sing in praise of cinema-daring us to see as we have never seen before. These wonderfully diverse essays take the measure of one of cinema's great visionaries."-Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary and editor, Maya Deren and the American Avant Garde Show Less