EMAS Presents: a live film scoring of Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man

EMAS will be be doing a live film scoring of the exceptional experimental silent film, Dog Star Man, directed by Stan Brakhage, featuring Jane Wodening.

Ben Baker – woodwinds

Shanté Clair – strings, found objects, electronics

Seth Andrew Davis – guitar

Kelley Gant – vocals, whistling, electronics

Brooke Knoll – harp

Kwan Leung Ling – suona

Aaron Tyler Osborne – upright bass, electronics

Zak Pischnotte – horns

Evan Verplough – drums

Dog Star Man is a series of short experimental films, all directed by Stan Brakhage, featuring Jane Wodening. It was released in installments between 1961 and 1964 and comprises a prelude and four parts. The five short films all form one larger film, and they will be shown together as one film.

Described as a "cosmological epic" and "creation myth" (particularly the Prelude), Dog Star Man illustrates the odyssey of a bearded woodsman (Brakhage) climbing through a snow-covered mountain with his dog to chop down a tree. While doing so, he witnesses various mystical visions with various recurring imagery such as a woman, child, nature, and the cosmos while making his ascent.