[Frameworks] other Brakhage films using natural objects

[Mark Toscano]

And actually, all the material in Horseman comes from various printings of the material originally created for Eye Myth.  Eye Myth itself is 35mm, about 9 seconds, and does have at least a couple of moth wings and other things embedded in its paint (this is what Stan is technically referring to in his Horseman blurb).  The original for Horseman is entirely dupe material, not actually painted and appliqued itself.  

After reducing to 16mm and creating Horseman, Stan also step printed it in a series of pre-determined repetitions and called it Eye Myth Educational.  I don't have my notes handy, but he did something like step printing Eye Myth 1:1, then 4:1, 3:1, 2:1, 1:1 - that, or something like that.  Only sometime in the late 1970s (if I remember right) did he actually print the original hand-modified 35mm roll 1:1 in 35mm (making an internegative and prints).

Mark T

--- On Thu, 3/17/11, marilyn brakhage <vams at shaw.ca> wrote:

From: marilyn brakhage <vams at shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] other Brakhage films using natural objects
To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8:22 PM

In 1968 he made "The Horseman, The Woman, and The Moth."   Taken from the description in the Canyon Cinema catalogue: "A long myth drawn directly onto the film's surface, which is painted, dyed, treated so that it will grow controlled cyrstals and mold-as-textures of the figures and forms of the drama -- some images stamped thru melted wax crayon techniques, some images actual objects (such as moth wings) collaged directly on the celluloid . . . "
However, I notice that the length of the film in the Canyon catalogue is not accurate.  I think it is closer to 19 minutes.
There were some other films in which he applied actual objects to the film -- some parts of Scenes From Under Childhood, for example -- but certainly this was not the main technique of those works, which were primarily photographed.
There were also, of course, many, many hand-painted films, but I can't think of any others to which he applied "natural objects."  Nor can I think of any examples of photogramming.
Marilyn Brakhage

On 17-Mar-11, at 12:52 PM, j.l. chouinard wrote:
hullo frameworkers,

looking for a few other works of Stan Brakhage that fall into the same category as "Mothlight" and "The Garden of Earthly Delights;" works that are made (almost) entirely by adhering natural objects directly to the medium.

while we're at it, any photogrammed pieces by Brakhage that spring to mind would also be helpful.



justin chouinard
adjunct instructor, mfa candidate
dept of media study
suny buffalo
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