Creativity needs an untutored vision. This was much explained by veteran film maker Stan Brakhage, said Suranjan Ganguly, Professor, University of Colorado and a close friend of Stan Brakhage. He was speaking in the panel discussion titled ‘Stan Brakhage: Act of seeing with one’s own eyes’, conducted in connection with IFFK 19th edition.
According to Stan Brakhage, people see only what they are thought to see by the compositional logic and education. Hence most of his films followed a non-narrative structure which at times could push the limits of human interpretations. Most of us are prejudiced about everything we see around us and understand and interpret what we see according to our existing believes and socio political conditions, said Suranjan Ganguly.
Closed vision is the one that we see when our eyes are closed, which includes elements, shapes, colours, dreams, imaginations, etc. Rhythm too plays a crucial role in influencing and felicitating our vision. The rate of frames per seconds in movies is best explained by this. Stan Brakhage even had to restructure his camera very often as each camera, lens and its components are influenced by its maker and his vision. Also, since it was difficult to visualize what he actually sees in a video, he often used to manipulate the surface of films with markings, paintings and formations, added Suranjan Ganguly.
Noted film maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan was also present in the function. Some of the major works by Stan Brakhage were also screened in the seminar.
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