“He’s part of the history of poetic cinema/experimental cinema, the pivotal group of New York City artists,” Hanna Rose Shell says. A filmmaker in her own right, Shell is an associate professor straddling two departments at the University of Colorado: art and art history, and cinema studies and moving image arts. She’s also the current director of The Brakhage Center for Media Arts, which is dedicated to preserving the legacy of former CU professor and poetic filmmaker Stan Brakhage.
