Detail View: Stan Brakhage Collection: Lecture by Robert Creeley on the film "The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes"

Identifier: 
narv_brak_PittsburghCreeleyPFMIlectureActofSeeing1982.mp3
Title: 
Lecture by Robert Creeley on the film "The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes"
Description: 
In this recording Robert Creeley talks about three of Stan Brakhage's films often referred to as ''The Pittsburgh Trilogy.' In preparation of the screening of 'The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes,' which is the filming of an autopsy, he gives accounts of people seeing dead bodies and examples from literature and film that deal with death. A question and answer session follows the screening, and he ends by talking about Stan Brakhage and his way of making films.
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Abstract
Description: 
00:00 Creeley begins to talk about three Brakhage films and the subjectivity of seeing 06:50 Talks about the meaning of 'autopsy' as "seeing with ones own eyes" and gives examples of people witnessing dead bodies 26:25 He looks at death in literature, quoting John Donne, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare and others 35:30 The lecture ends and the screening follows 37:15 Creeley talks about his initial reaction to the film 38:15 Much discussion about the film, its colors, it being silent, the viewing experience, attitudes about the body and about death 01:18:30 Greeley talks about Stan Brakhage 01:30:10 End
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SegmentSequence
Subject: 
Death in literature
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036108
Subject: 
Death in motion pictures
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036110
Subject: 
Independent films -- United States
Subject Type: 
local
Subject: 
Experimental films -- United States
Subject Type: 
local
Subject: 
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Motion picture)
Subject Type: 
local
Subject: 
Brakhage , Stan
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82017258
Subject: 
Autopsy
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85010461
Subject: 
Dead
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036024
Source: 
narv_brak_PittsburghCreeleyPFMIlectureActofSeeing1982
Creator: 
Brakhage, Stan
Creator Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82017258http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82017258
Contributor: 
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Contributor Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043504
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Date: 
1982
Format Medium: 
audio/mp3
Language: 
English
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/wk5n0p94131r