with the intention of becoming a painter and made the acquaintance of poets Robert Duncan and Kenneth Rexroth before moving to New York, where he met fellow artist and filmmaker Maya Deren, as well as artist Joseph Cornell and composer John Cage. Brakhage spent much of the 1950s living in poverty, eking out a living shooting industrial films before relocating his family to a log cabin in Lump Gulch, Colorado, an all but abandoned mining town near Boulder. All the while he continued pursuing his vision of personal cinema, one which had little to do with much of America's notion of what movies were all about.
from Legacy: Stan Brakhage--The Art of Seeing
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