The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (1971) by Stan Brakhage
Sunday, November 14, 1982, 8:00 pm
eyes, Deus Ex andThe Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes
Stan Brakhage
eyes (1971), Deus Ex (1971), The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (1971) by Stan Brakhage.
In 1971, Brakhage was commissioned to make three films in Pittsburgh, the purpose being to get a sensitive camera eye into places not traditionally open to personal documentation. What emerged was a trilogy of some of Brakhage’s most powerful work and landmarks of American avant-garde film. eyes: “I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car,” a film mostly edited in-the-camera; Deus Ex: “open heart surgery seen as equivalent to Aztec ritual sacrifice” Act of Seeing… title from the Greek autopsy: transforms a difficult visual taboo subject into an intensely visual and immediate experience.