Stan Brakhage, one of the leading figures in American experimental cinema, died March 9 in Victoria, British Columbia. He was 70. The cause was cancer, his wife, Marilyn, said. In a career that began ...

Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but dubbed himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet—one who spoke in the language of film and measured his ...