Jane Wodening,(then Jane Brakhage), assembled three remarkable scrapbooks in the early 1960s, when she was the wife and muse of experimental film maker Stan Brakhage. Celebrated today as a pioneer in avant-garde cinema, Stan Brakhage was just gaining recognition for his non-narrative and hand painted films during the period documented by the scrapbooks. Wodening created the scrapbooks from literal âscrapsâ of their family life, Brakhageâs creative process, and the artistic communities of which they were a part. Pages are covered with the widest array of verbal and visual materials including but not limited to letters, manuscripts, photographs, original art, clippings, pamphlets, filmstrips, and flyers. The scrapbooks demonstrate, too, Janeâs own aesthetic vision and creative drive.
The books document a crucial time in Stan Brakhageâs career (during which he made some 30 films, including Dog Star Man, one of his most important) and in the Brakhagesâ lives, a period during which they encountered and shared lively creative exchanges with many filmmakers, artists, Beat Generation poets, and other writers. Writers and artists who are, in some way, âcontributorsâ to the scrapbooks include: Kenneth Anger, Wallace Berman, Joseph Cornell, Robert Creeley, Guy Davenport, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, Jess, Robert Kelly, Gregory Markopoulos, Michael McClure, Jonas Mekas, Carolee Schneemann, and Louis Zukofsky. âWe were all young and wild and articulate and creative,â Jane Wodening has written about the creative community of the period, âwe were right; we were gods; we were going to change the world, bring it around to sheer truth.â
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