It was about two years ago that I first saw "Man With A Movie Camera". What Vertog was trying to achieve might not seem like much today but back in the day it was completely revolutionary because it changed the perception of what Cinema could be. For Vertog, truth was in fact stranger and more interesting than fiction. "Cinema Verite" made famous by the Maysles brothers is completely influenced by the work of kinoks.
Brakhage on the other hand is more experimental, at least from the films that I have seen.In "Mothlight" he showed us insects and plants to create truly mystic imagery. I agree with him in that artists are obsessed with death and the search of God. God being salvation and not a mystical being on itself. The best art, or the one that gets to me the most, is melancholic in nature. Brakhage presents us with this melancholy in his work.
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