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Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-Garde Filmmakers

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I loved reading this book. If you like to really learn about the personal lives of filmmakers this is the book for you. Stan Brakhrage writes in an easy fun manner. It's an easy read and you can skip around the chapters and read about all your favorite film artists first. Marie Menken is my favorite, I would have loved to have hung out with her and the gang in that era. It's also very informative about their work too. There is a great story in the Marie Menken chapter on how Menken got into film by working with her husband, Willard Maas on his film, Geography of the Body. It describes how she used a magnifying glass to do the close ups, I tried it, it does work. The point being, it's not a lot of technical big words that sends you to the dictionary, it's down to earth and the information will stay with you long after you read it. You'll have great stories to tell while hanging out in the pub with other artists and a beer.