Freedom

Stan Brakhage, Mothlight, 1963


"Brakhage told us what we already knew as children of the cold war, that no matter how hard we tried, we could not be free-- thus inviting us, paradoxically, into the rigors of utopian political orthodoxy. Warhol's film, on the other hand, told us, what we needed to know, that, no matter how hard we tried, we could not be ordered-- that insofar as we were tiny, raggedy, damaged and disorganized human beings, we probably were free, in some small degree, whether we liked it or not."
-- Dave Hickey



Andy Warhol, Empire, 1964