Marco Lori completed his PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, with a thesis about Stan Brakhage¿s spiritual quest.

Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her books include Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde; Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry; Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage and Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form. She runs a website with Ben Watson: www.militantesthetix.co.uk.

Introductory Notes
Brakhage's Blacks - Nicky Hamlyn
It Within Itself: Mimetic Fissures in Brakhage's Object Collage/Time Paintings - Peter Mudie
Bottom-Up Processing, Entoptic Vision and the Innocent Eye in the Films of Stan Brakhage - Paul Taberham
The Eye and the Hand: Brakhage's Challenge to Ocularcentrism - Gareth Evans
The Renewed Encounter with the Everyday: Stan Brakhage and the Ethics of the (Extra)ordinary - Rebecca A. Sheehan
Perceiving War's Horizon in Stan Brakhage's 23rd Psalm Branch - Christina Chalmers
Stan Brakhage's Temporality, Disjunction and Reflexive Process - Stephen Mooney
Art as Revelation: The Origins of a Sacred Calling - Marco Lori

edited by Marco Lori, Esther Leslie