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Brakhage on the making of The Text of Light:
...in photographing this ash tray for instance, I’m sitting for hours to get 30 seconds of film. I’m sitting watching what’s happening and clicking a frame, and sitting and watching, and further than that, I had shot several hundred feet and they seemed dead. They didn’t reflect at all my excitement and emotion and feeling. They had no anima in them, except for two or three shots where the lens which was on a tripod, pressed against the desk, had jerked. Those were just random, but what gave me the clue. What I began doing was always holding the camera in hand. For hours. Clicking. Waiting. Seeing what the sun did to the scene. As I saw what was happening in the frame to these little particles of light, changing, I would shoot the camera very slightly. If you want to know how slightly you have to realize I was never photographing in an area bigger than this fourth fingernail. You couldn’t tap the camera. It had to be moved by a quivering attention of the hand. That took maybe 13 or 14 moves over a period of ten minutes. Then to get that in mind: what it was doing and changing and how I was dancing with it had to be extended in memory; one, how would that come out at 24 frames a second and two, as to, was the dance real?
And all the time I was doing this I had to have a friendly argument in my mind with Jordan Belson who I knew would hate just exactly this. He would say, Oh, wonderful what it is, but why is it jerky? Or why not centered? Or, you know...and to hold myself together I would say, No, Jordan, it has to be this way. So I, I owe him very much. He sustained me in that way a beautiful argument can, because it was very much in his territory. I mean this film is very much on his side of the street.
Though there is another man. I want to mention that the film is dedicated to Jim Davis. I suddenly one night had this overwhelming feeling...I got mad because someone had written another article on many people working with so-called abstract film, which term I don’t believe in anyway. But they had not mentioned Jim Davis, and he has always resisted being mentioned. It is true, he’s a very shy man. He had lived all his life, the last 20 years at 44 Wiggins St., in Princeton, N.J., very ill with diabetes and with a lot of back trouble and in bed the last decade. With his great construct before him, so that from his bed he could photograph whenever his constructs created a light pattern that seemed real to him, refracted light. He was literally the first man who had shown me refracted light on film. So I called him up and asked him if I could dedicate the film to him. And I was surprised that he didn’t say no; but I’m so glad I did because he was dead a week later. (1974) [/quote]
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Lot's of more new Brakhage on it's way
like Sincerity V, the hand painted films, Jane and a few others stay tuned 
Text.of.Light.(Stan.Brakhage,.1974)-fitz.avi 
and it's not, just make a custom soundtrack, the most painfull thing is it not having a sounctrack, the film isnt boring.
