What we thought when we were making it is really irrelevant to placing it in the canon. Deconstructing the works has nothing to do with what we thought about it.
“I really think my films are documentaries. All of them. They are my attempts to get as accurate a representation of seeing as I possibly can. I never fantasize. I have never invented something just for the sake of making an interesting image. I am always struggling very hard to get as close an equivalent on film as I can, as I actually see it.”
Stan Brakhage