In these eight sparkling biographies, Stan Brakhage brings us into
intimate acquaintance with some of America's most influential
independent filmmakers. With insight and sharp detail, Brakhage
puts the lives and works of these filmic visionaries into personal
focus. We meet Jerome Hill, born to inherit railroads and banks but
destined to forge his artistic vision into a lasting film
statement. And Marie Menken who, against the odds of a miserable
and brutal marriage, developed a film aesthetic that revolutionized
the very essence of independent filmmaking. Then James Broughton,
the inveterate San Franciscan, whose irrepressible sense of whimsy
and profound grasp of classical symbols combined to create some of
the most vital filmworks of the last four decades; Christopher
MacLaine, the "Artaud of North Beach"; Maya Deren, known to
independent filmmakers as "the mother of us all"; Sidney Peterson,
sophisticated, erudite, shy, the gentleman of the avant-garde film
world; and two of Brakhage's most prominent contemporaries, Bruce
Conner and Ken Jacobs.
These filmmakers are members of one of the most radical of
20th-century art movements; and yet as radical and individual as
they are, their films and their lives are a continuous source of
inspiration, not only to young, developing film-artists, but to the
makers of commercial movies and videos as well. Brakhage presents
them and their work in portraits that are at once critical and
anecdotal. One comes away from Film at Wit's End as one leaves an
enjoyable, lively evening among friends.
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