Westword: When did you first learn about the Faust films? Joel Haertling: I think when we went to Telluride Film Festival in ’86. That’s when we were talking about doing it. I said to Brakhage, “Well, ...

Stan Brakhage, one of the leading figures in American experimental cinema, died March 9 in Victoria, British Columbia. He was 70. The cause was cancer, his wife, Marilyn, said. In a career that began ...

Made in the years preceding Brakhage’s landmark light poem The Text of Light (1974), these seven silent shorts mainly hover between representation and abstraction, their soft focus, solid colors, and ...

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In anticipation of The Jag, a new play produced by yours truly, Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo present Jean-François Stévenin’s Mountain Pass on Friday.