"You're only here for a short visit, don't hurry, don't worry, and be sure to smell the flowers along the way"- Walter Hagen
Brakhage's "Metaphors on Vision" reminds me that perspective can change everything. Stan says to imagine a world with an "endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color". Do we really have to imagine it? Isn't that the world we live in? I hope that no one would have to imagine it. When you are taught what to look for in life according to what some might think, it's easy to see why some people may see much more in life.
Some may see the world around them and be numb to it. If you see a tree in your daily schedule of life, is all you see the brown wood and the green leaves? Or do you see something telling you that you are alive this very second? We are all severely distracted by the rat race. Are we more than "birth, sex, death, and the search for God"? Some try to be, call them artists. Brakage knows that artists use a "new language" to show others what they might not see or receive from life. One of these many new languages is experimental film.
Some may see the world around them and be numb to it. If you see a tree in your daily schedule of life, is all you see the brown wood and the green leaves? Or do you see something telling you that you are alive this very second? We are all severely distracted by the rat race. Are we more than "birth, sex, death, and the search for God"? Some try to be, call them artists. Brakage knows that artists use a "new language" to show others what they might not see or receive from life. One of these many new languages is experimental film.
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