10. Why does Sitney argue, “It was Brakhage, of all the major American avant-garde filmmakers, who first embraced the formal directives and verbal aesthetics of Abstract Expressionism.”
Brakhage used fast cutting and scratching/painting on the film to push the image into the space of Abstract Expressionism, which no other American filmmaker was doing yet.
11. What archetypes are significant motifs in Dog Star Man, and which writers are associated with these four states of existence?
The writer most associated with this is Blake, and the four states are innocence, experience, ulro (hell) and eden (heaven).
12. What are some similarities and differences between Dog Star Man and the Songs?
Differences: different film format/stock (16mm vs 8mm). all fades/superimpositions on Songs had to be done in camera. 30 Songs vs 5 DSM sections.
Similarities: deal with similar themes. all sections are in some way connected. lots of superimposition.
7. What does Sitney mean by "hard" and "soft" montage? What examples of each does he give from Anticipation of the Night? {Tricky question; read the entire passage very carefully.]
Alright, I'm not too sure on this one, but I think he means hard montage to be when the images juxtaposed are very different, such as in the opening with the montage of day and night, and soft montage is when the images are more similar and lead in to each other through pattern or color.
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