Brakhage’s early masterpiece and an epic of mythopoeic cinema, Dog Star Man is a five-part work that has evoked comparison to Whitman’s Leaves of Grass for its joyous affirmation of life and to the work of the Abstract Expressionists for its painterly handling of movement, light, texture, and form. Brakhage works both behind and in front of the camera, where he periodically appears in the titled role as an Adam in a post-Edenic realm.