He has ranked since the 1950s among the foremost American independent filmmakers, producing an abundance of films of various lengths and of differing qualify, all in a style uniquely his. The best definition of this style appears in a book by a Canadian filmmaker nearly a generation younger, R. Bruce Elder. Rather than steal, I quote:
True as this is as description, Elder also identifies an implication for the audience: Spectators of a Brakhage film are fascinated spectators, absorbed completely in...