"Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde" is, as the title already states, the second of four part from the "Visions in meditation" series that American filmmaker Stan Brakhage made in the autumn of his career, in the years 1989 and 1990. I have seen many of the filmmaker's works and not liked very much and sadly this work here adds to the negative experiences. I found it very slow, uninteresting and uninspired. In my opinion, this is a piece of film that anybody who does well with cameras can make. The series started uninteresting and looks like it stays that way. It is also not helping that it is silent. If we heard the waves for example, at least it could have been a feast for the ears. I highly recommend to watch something else instead. Thumbs down.
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Approachable Brakhage
xianjiro28 February 2015
For many, this will be much more watchable and maybe even interesting than much of Brakhage's anthology included in the Criterion Collection. And rather than approaching his canon in a chronological fashion, lay viewers might be better served starting with something like Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde because one is first grounded in a reality, in images that one understands and may even recognize. From there, the experimental nature of Brakhage's work is more understandable and relatable though by no means should this piece be confused with travelogue: it is still jarring and even disturbing though it still allows the viewer great latitude in interpretation.
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