Response to Stan Brakhage - Metaphors on Vision

In Metaphors on Vision, I feel it's a pointless reading about imagining a time before we had language and communication to be able to really grasp what we saw and  how we saw things. It's like asking me to imagine not knowing what a rainbow is and seeing one for the first time. No I cannot imagine not knowing what it is I see. I have in interest in creating videos that show how I see things. The stories I want to tell and how I want to tell them.
Early in history we had limited knowledge how to tell stories. First through pictures, then later language, photography, and now film/video.
These readings give me headaches. I can imagine not having to read them and respond to them, instead i'd be sitting here in front of my computer putting to good use the new skills and techniques I used in After Effects so that I can put out there my metaphors on vision with video.
This reading was published in 1963. I think we've had Directors and Cinematographers put out books and videos on their visions of film and video.

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