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- 1 2 Brakhage Scrapbook: Stan Brakhage Collected Writings 1964-1980, edited by Robert A. Haller (1982) New York: Documentext, p245
- 1 2 3 Daniel Barnett (2008) Movement as meaning: in experimental film, Rodopi, page iii-iv
- 1 2 James, David E. (2005) Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker, Temple University Press, p43
- ↑ The Sound Cinema of Stan Brakhage, Los Angeles Film Forum, June 2010. Accessed March 10, 2011.
- ↑ MacDonald, Scott (2005) A critical cinema: interviews with independent filmmakers, University of California Press, p205
- ↑ "Stan Brakhage Collection". Academy Film Archive.
- ↑ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
