Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes

With his camera, Brakhage enters one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. “This last is a process that requires a witness; and what ‘idea’ may finally have inserted itself into the sensible world we can scarcely guess, for the camera would seem the perfect eidetic witness, staring with perfect compassion where we can scarcely bear to glance” (Hollis Frampton).