In metaphors on vision Stan Brakhage sets out a vision for a cinema that could "create a new language made possible by the moving image," a new language which could be used by new visual artists to "deal imagistically with–birth, sex, death, and the search for God."
Brakhage seems to be calling for a generation of artists, presumably film makers, to begin with the production of works which dispense with conventional approaches to subject matter, and instead focus on conveying meaning through the "pursuit of knowledge foreign to language and founded upon visual communication."
Finally, he implores the reader to accept formerly shunned forms of vision as creative sources. "Allow so-called hallucination to enter the realm of perception, ... accept dream visions, day-dreams or night-dreams, as you would so-called real scenes, even allowing that the abstractions which move so dynamically when closed eyelids are pressed are actually perceived."