Brakhage.
Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1966. Item #2392
Side-stapled in wrappers, 82 pp. Issued as Film-Makers' Cinematheque Monograph Series, no. 2.
If not for the author's preface this work would appear to be a very detailed description of Stan Brakhage's first 28 films (Interim, 1952 through The Art of Vision, 1960–64). In the preface, however, Dan Clark frames the text as his first novel, whose "central figure, J. Stanley Brakhage, a film maker, is not entirely fictitious … Brakhage's story is told by a critic in a series of twenty-eight chronologically arranged studies of his films. … [The critic] patiently focuses on sprocket holes, frames, emulsion, the surface of the film stock itself. … If the films seem almost too diligently described to be fictitious, don't let that fool you. The flims, the artist, and the critic do not exist. This is an imaginary work."
Dan Clark was a friend of Brakhage and was lead lab printer (and eventual owner) at Western Cinema Labs in Englewood, Colorado, the lab with which the film maker worked throughout his life. A curious and fascinating publication. Very good condition with light shelf wear.
Price: $750.00