How astonishing is it then that the film’s greatest failure—its inability to tell a cohesive story—is also one of its greatest achievements?
Maya Deren’s passion for movement was so great that her friends remarked she could have been a dancer.
To appropriate Samuel Beckett's observation of James Joyce, Brakhage's films are not about something, they are that something itself.
Tribeca Film Festival 2010: Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (Mostly) American Avant-Garde
by Aaron Cutler
The film’s quite right in showing the avant-garde as an enormously diverse movement.
A vital, confounding, surprising, confrontational collection of underappreciated American films.