The three hundred movies that Stan Brakhage has brought into the world, more or less single-handedly, since 1952 provide an alternate history of motion pictures. Brakhage's vast and unique oeuvre has points of contact with surrealism, action painting, home movies, and what was once called the New American Poetry-but mainly it's the demonstration of a distinctly American heroic modernism. (Jim Shedden's Brakhage is an) extremely reverent portrait of the artist...(A)mong the movie's most evocative scenes are a clip of the young Brakhage interviewed on TV, directing the camera to 'see' like a person, and a shot of the old Brakhage crouching down to stick his camera lens a fraction of an inch from the surface of a sylvan stream....Shedden samples many of Brakhage's greatest hits, from the early psychodrama The Way to Shadow Garden (through) the pure prismatic Text of Light to the filmmaker's recent painted or scratched films. To see the equivalent of Brakhage's reel, annotated by the filmmaker, is to recognize the awesome breadth of his accomplishments in, and dedication to, what sometimes seems the most fragile of media.-J. Hoberman, The Village Voice