Brakhage, Stan

Stan Brakhage was born 14 January 1933, in Kansas City, MO, and adopted by Ludwig (a shoe salesman) and Clara (Dubberstein) Brakhage . He attended Dartmouth College for two months. He is an Independent filmmaker and currently professor of film history at the University of Colorado . Brakhage has also lectured in film history and aesthetics at Art Institute of Chicago and at colleges in the United States and Europe . He is a member of selection committee for the Anthology of Cinema .

Brakhage's work has received the following awards: Independent Film Award, Film Culture, 1962; Avon Foundation grant, 1965-69; Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, 1967-69; Brandeis citation, 1973; Colorado Governor's Award for Arts and Humanities, 1974; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1975, 1977, 1980, and 1983; Guggenheim fellowship, 1978; James Ryan Morris Foundation award, 1979; Telluride Film Festival medallion, 1981; honorary doctorate from San Francisco Art Institute, 1981; University of Colorado Council on Research and Creative Works grant, 1983.

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