Question: Which American filmmaker is known for experimental film, Lee Daniels or Stan Brakhage?
Context: Interim is a 1953 American short film drama directed by Stan Brakhage.  It was the first film directed by Stan Brakhage, whose expansive filmography has made him an influential figure in experimental film. The Arabic Numeral Series, sometimes referred to as the Arabics, is a series of 19 short 16mm films completed by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage in 1981 and 1982.  The "Arabic Numeral Series" gets its name from the fact that none of the films included in it have titles, instead opening with an arabic numeral.  Brakhage produced another cycle, the "Roman Numeral Series", whose films all have Roman numerals instead of titles, around the same time.  All of the "Arabics" are silent and are intended to be projected at 18 frames per second. Over the course of more than five decades, the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced a large body of work.  All films in the filmography are assumed to be silent, in color, and are meant to be shown at 24 frames per second, unless otherwise noted.  The Brakhage films, comprising his edited originals, intermediate elements, and other original material, are housed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive, where a long-term project is underway to preserve and restore his entire film output. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes is a 1971 American experimental film by Stan Brakhage.  Its title is based on the literal translation of the term "autopsy".  The film documented the highly graphic autopsy procedures used by forensic pathologists, such as the removal of organs and the embalming process. Scenes from Under Childhood is a series of 16mm film in four independent sections by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced between 1967 and 1970.  All four sections are silent, though Brakhage made a version with sound available for the first section. Lee Louis Daniels (born December 24, 1959) is an American producer and director.  He produced "Monster's Ball" and directed "Precious", which received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Director; it won two of the awards. James Stanley Brakhage ( ; January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003), better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker.  He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film. The Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969.  They are seen as one of Brakhage's major works and include the feature-length "23rd Psalm Branch", considered by some to be one of the filmmaker's masterworks and described by film historian P. Adams Sitney as "an apocalypse of imagination."  One of the filmmaker's most overtly political films, "23rd Psalm Branch" is often interpreted as being Brakhage's reaction to the Vietnam War. Jane Wodening (born Mary Jane Collom, and formerly known as Jane Brakhage) is an American writer and the first wife of filmmaker Stan Brakhage.  The birth of their first child is the subject of the 1959 experimental short film "Window Water Baby Moving".  Wodening married Stan Brakhage in 1957 and is credited with creating scrapbooks for the Brakhage family during what is recognized as the filmmaker's most significant period of creation from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s.  The couple separated in 1987. Sexual Meditation: Room with View, is a 1971 experimental film directed by Stan Brakhage.  Shot on 16 mm film, the film explores the often blurry nature of gender roles in the copulatory ritual.  "Sexual Meditation" introduces the viewer to two distinct characters, a male and female, although many have postulated that the female is simply an illusionary impression of the male's apparent sexual frustration.
Answer: Stan Brakhage