Film/Video REGIS DIALOGUE AND RETROSPECTIVE STAN BRAKHAGE: THE ART OF SEEING FEBRUARY 5-27, 1999, Screenings $6 ($3) per evening. Regis Dialogue $8 ($6)

The dean of American experimental filmmakers, Stan Brakhage has created more than 300 films over the past four decades, which have redefined the forms of avant-garde practice. While he has labored in diverse genres (documentaries, psychodramas, hand-painted abstractions), his work remains distinctive, marked by gestural camera movements and hand-crafted, manipulated surfaces. For Brakhage, the film image serves not merely as a conveyor of representational content or narrative meaning, but rather as the record of an intensive act of seeing and as "metaphors on vision." Despite the often private nature of many of his concerns--ironic for an artist working in such an ostensibly public medium--and despite his self-imposed exile in the mountains of Colorado, Brakhage's figure has continued to cast a large shadow across the independent and experimental cinemas and represents an exemplary practice that remains unmatched in the history of the medium.

MAJOR SUPPORT FOR THE WALKER'S PRESENTATION OF STAN BRAKHAGE: THE ART OF SEEING HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY A GRANT FROM THE REGIS FOUNDATION. SPECIAL PROGRAMMING ASSISTANCE HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY JEAN-MICHEL BOUHOURS, THE CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU (PARIS); ROBERT HALLER, ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES (NEW YORK); AND DOMINIC ANGERAME, CANYON CINEMA (SAN FRANCISCO).