After a good discussion with Jeremy in class today (thank you) i have been busy on you tube and the internet looking up Stan Brakhage and his work.

"Mothlight"

Stan Brakhage

1963

  Brakhage constructed an organic visual nest (moth wings, grass, leaves, dirt) and put it between strands of tape, which was then rephotographed through an optical printer. 

"The Dante Quartet"

Stan Brakhage

1987

 Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all, as he pioneered the art of making images directly on film, by drawing, painting, and scratching. 

 This led me onto Oskar Fischinger who was making video years earlier but with the same imagination, passion and inventive techniques.

"Allegretto"

Oskar Fischinger

1936

Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cut-outs hung on invisible wires and shot a frame at a time to make this animation.  

"Optical Poetry"

Oskar Fischinger

1938

http://www.oskarfischinger.org 

 This website has interesting information that Ive enjoyed reading. His paintings using circles is also relevant to some of my work I'm currently working on in the print studio....bonus.  

 "Pulling Whirl" 1964

"Revolving" 1965