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The Autobiography of Jane Brakhage
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $44.00
Publisher: Sticking Place Books
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In The Autobiography of Jane Brakhage, Jane Wodening-writer, naturalist, and longtime collaborator of legendary avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage-tells her own story at last. Speaking with candor, wit, and startling emotional clarity, she traces a life that begins in Depression-era Illinois, where a lonely child found her first language in the company of dogs, and unfolds through the mountains of Colorado, where wilderness, animals, and solitude shaped her imagination. As muse, collaborator, amanuensis, distributor, and the luminous on-screen presence in many of Brakhage's films, she stood at the center of one of the most radical bodies of work in American cinema-yet her own creative identity remained, for decades, submerged.
This autobiography reveals the woman behind the myth: a fiercely intelligent spirit who endured a turbulent thirty-year marriage, raised five children, and ultimately reclaimed herself through writing. After her divorce, she embarked on years of solitary travel and a ten-year retreat in a high mountain cabin, forging a visionary ecological consciousness rooted in lived experience. In prose at once intimate and expansive, Jane Wodening emerges as more than a footnote to film history: she becomes a voice of moral urgency and spiritual independence, a writer who reimagined the bond between humans, animals, and the living earth-and who, late in life, claimed her own name and her own story.
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