His work, fecund and multiple, which feeds as well on his private and family universe as on nature and political events in his time, finds a fecund humus in abstraction for its visual researches. Great technician of the film tool, Brakhage invents an unique film form, whose importance in the history of cinema sometimes made him compared with Pollock for painting. Brakhage enlarged the field of the film figurativity as no other artist made it. He was a poet of his medium, an artist attentive to the plastic potentialities given by his tool first. Author of numerous theoretical texts, he also wrote in-depth texts on the technology of the film, the splice, 8mm format, the different qualities of the film strip, the techniques of printing, in brief poetics of film-making. Ten years after his death, it appears necessary today to have an exhaustive inventory of his films to measure the largeness of his work, but also be able to locate – in the epoch of virtual information – the physical copies of its films.