> in the criterion Brakhage set there's an interview where he speaks
> briefly about the Cage connection. i seem to recall him saying that he
> works on a similar principal to cage, although wouldn't neccesarily
> define it as chance, since they both produce work based on a random
> system and pick out the bits that 'speak to them', and discard the
> rest.
Yes as did Burroughs, the real genius was in the editing of the
material produced.
Like I said in my original mail I'm interested in films using artistic
processes which incorporate chance or random elements, so I'll
definitely have to check out the Brakhage set.
Steve
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