Stan Brakhage

Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see pa...

02 de dez. de 1963

Mergulhando em planos íntimos, Brakhage documenta o nascimento de sua primeira filha. Cadenciadas poeticamente, as imagens da mãe, sua face, corpo,...

02 de ago. de 1959

After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid cha...

28 de ago. de 1967

Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door ...

01 de jan. de 1954

19 de fev. de 1972

This hand-painted, step-printed film begins with streaks of light and vibrantly colored forms. There appears, frame center, the tapered shape of a...

01 de jan. de 1999

Experimental film following a cycle of seasons as well as the stretch of a single day as a man and his dog slowly ascend a mountain.

22 de fev. de 1965

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explos...

15 de abr. de 1962

Another of Brakhage’s works of “moving visual thinking,” Rage Net reminds one of the vibrant pioneering experiments of European animators of the 19...

01 de jan. de 1988

18 de nov. de 2009

This is a hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity-of-motion, and make...

31 de dez. de 1993

Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, a man and a woman's, close up, nude - patches o...

17 de nov. de 1964

A film about the naturalness of sexuality. Its four sequences feature heterosexual and homosexual lovemaking, dogs copulating, and naked childen at...

01 de jan. de 1968

This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of...

05 de mar. de 1990

Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work w...

01 de jan. de 1959

Part of Three Hand-Painted Films, Night Music (originally painted on IMAX) attempts to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when clos...

01 de jan. de 1986

A collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of ste...

01 de jan. de 1981

Says Fred Camper of the film: "Invited to Riverside, California, Brakhage, under the mistaken impression that it was a desert, was planning a deser...

23 de dez. de 1976

A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant is born. We see a lactating nipple. Images incl...

17 de nov. de 1964

Comingled Containers is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage. "This 'return to photography' (after several years of only painting film) was ...

04 de set. de 1996

A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against...

26 de mar. de 1987

This lush, sensuous film is based on paintings of unusual variety and intricacy. Brakhage's desire to include all the complexities of living in his...

04 de mar. de 2001

An important early film by Stan Brakhage, which Joseph Cornell commissioned as a record of New York's Third Avenue elevated train before it was tor...

04 de dez. de 1955

Inspired by a bad fall on a patch of black ice (that ultimately resulted in Brakhage's need for eye surgery), the filmmaker gives us something of a...

31 de dez. de 1994

Four superimposed rolls of hand-painted and bi-packed television negative imagery are edited so as to approximate the hypnagogic process whereby th...

05 de mar. de 1991

Refracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl. There's a dog, a swing, a pi...

01 de jan. de 1987

A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in th...

01 de jan. de 1972

Stan Brakhage's final film, made shortly before his death by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail to scratch marks into the emu...

31 de mai. de 2003

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both...

26 de abr. de 1999

De uma paisagem perdida e escura, uma montanha emerge, assistimos ao sol, vemos um homem barburo caminhando pela neve acompanhado por um cão.

18 de mar. de 1963

"The Dead became my first work in which things that might very easily be taken as symbols were so photographed as to destroy all their symbolic pot...

31 de dez. de 1960

We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips th...

19 de nov. de 1974

SONG 10: Sitting around (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to...

01 de mar. de 1965

SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan...

20 de mar. de 1964

SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produ...

20 de mar. de 1964

SONG 13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakh...

03 de set. de 1965

A hand-painted and photographically step-printed film, which exhibits variably shaped small areas of color (in a dark field) that explode into full...

01 de jan. de 1993

A man, accompanied by a dog, struggles through snow on a mountain side. We see film stock blister; drawn square shapes appear. Then, we see an infa...

01 de jan. de 1963

This film by Stan Brakhage investigates the process of memory and thought by melting a series of images and a field of color. The positive-negativ...

10 de nov. de 1972

The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a ri...

12 de nov. de 1954

One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) agains...

31 de dez. de 1962

SONG 1: Portrait of a lady (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964...

20 de mar. de 1964

The film begins with the image of a dead bird. The mind moves to forget, as well as to remember: this film graphs the process of forgetfulness agai...

31 de dez. de 1978

Only at a crisis do I see both the scene as I've been trained to see it ( that is, with Renaissance perspective, three-dimensional logic–colors as ...

07 de nov. de 1961

"'Mis-takes' give birth to 'shape' (which, in this work, is 'matter,' subject and otherwise) amidst a weave of thought: ... the 'dream' of Eden wil...

23 de set. de 1970

First person view of a man, seen only in shadow, attempting to connect with the world around him. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

22 de abr. de 1958

Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray. "'All that is is lig...

26 de out. de 1974

A single roll, edited in camera, reveals a small portrait of our ever-present cat. -Marilyn Brakhage

01 de jan. de 2002

SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan...

20 de mar. de 1964

A nostalgic envisionment of city living - the potential shards of memory seen as if always on the verge of cutting the mind to pieces.

01 de jan. de 1992

SONG 4: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan ...

20 de mar. de 1964

SONG 9: Wedding source and substance (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced...

01 de mar. de 1965

In “Mr. Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life”, Mr. Tompkins learns about biology. In a wild and entertaining dream, his creator, author George Gamow, ...

01 de jan. de 1962

Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally jo...

01 de out. de 1988

"This film is about 'nothing.' Hints of dramatic 'loss' are imaged throughout, but the primary effect of the film is to give, through fleeting and ...

01 de jan. de 1976

The film is officially untitled, but is referred to by the dedication that appears in place of a title card. It is dedicated to Marilyn Brakhage, t...

01 de jan. de 1992

“This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colors are interwoven with words (in English) from the first Hymn to the Nigh...

31 de dez. de 1994

This way madness - or experimental filmmaking - lies. A solitary man in coat and tie enters an apartment. It's midnight. He appears agitated and di...

05 de fev. de 1954

We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at...

27 de abr. de 1959

Photographing near Taos, New Mexico, where D.H. Lawrence lived, and in the room in which his ashes may be entombed, Brakhage also cites a statement...

01 de jan. de 1990

Working completely outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging a...

09 de jun. de 2003

SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 ...

20 de mar. de 1964

I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUX EX.

19 de set. de 1971

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns a...

26 de fev. de 1996

SONG 8: Sea creatures (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1...

20 de mar. de 1964

Four films in contemplation upon those events which are so centered upon one moment that chronology seems almost obliterated or at least unimportan...

01 de jan. de 1977

In honor of the cat, so named, and the goddess of all cats which she was named after. - CAT Film Festival

04 de fev. de 1966

The "star", as it is singular, is the sun; and it is metaphored, at the beginning of this film, by the projector anyone uses to show forth. Then th...

29 de abr. de 1974

SONG 7: San Francisco (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1...

20 de mar. de 1964

A multiple-superimposition hand-painted visual symphony of animal life of earth. THE LOOM might be compared to musical quartet-form (as there are a...

30 de dez. de 1986

SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan B...

03 de set. de 1965

A young man meets a young woman under a bridge by a railroad. They shelter from the rain and exchange a kiss. The man grows sullen and leaves. The ...

12 de nov. de 1952

Inspired in part by a dream he had of murdering his mother, Brakhage here gives us one of his profoundest meditations on human aggression.

27 de mar. de 1981

Reel #5 of (...) is composed of scratch-imagery edited to music by James Tenney. The music starts accompanied only by black leader: then there is a...

01 de jan. de 1998

Centuries of June, perhaps more than any Cornell film, is a naked attempt to capture the soul of a place and the mood of a disappearing moment.

01 de jan. de 1955

Flares of color break into streams of light, leaves, wood grain and prism-etched vegetation. A moon lifts out of this dark weave to be replaced by ...

01 de jan. de 1997

SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmake...

03 de set. de 1965

A tribute to Stan Brakhage's pet dog Sirius, whose decompostion was recorded over 6 months after he had died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archiv...

31 de dez. de 1959

The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in Colora...

27 de jan. de 1967

THE ANIMALS OF EDEN AND AFTER ... is too mysterious, to me, for me to be able to write anything about it except that it seems to be the best film I...

23 de set. de 1970

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage...

20 de abr. de 1966

This is the twelfth film in the twenty-part Arabics series. Brakhage creates blurry visual fields that are profoundly without ground, worlds of uni...

01 de jul. de 1981

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometime...

01 de jan. de 1994

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspers...

26 de abr. de 1999

Two portraits in relation to each other, the first of Robert Creeley, the second of Michael McClure. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

31 de dez. de 1965

Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden reco...

28 de mar. de 2000

“After wishing for years to be given the opportunity of filming some of the more “mystical” occupations of our Times – which the average imaginatio...

22 de dez. de 1970

This is a film inspired by Gertrude Stein's "Stanzas In Meditation", in which the filmmaker has edited a meditative series of images of landscapes ...

01 de jan. de 1989

A series of terrifying dramas of male-female relationships offset against the background of a New York tenement. Preserved by the Academy Film Arc...

25 de jan. de 1955

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against da...

01 de jan. de 1981

"On July 4, 1976 I and my camera toured the state of Colorado with governor Richard D. Lamm, as he traveled in parades with his children, appeared ...

20 de out. de 1977

A friend of many years' acquaintance showed me the duplicity of myself. And, midst guilt and anxiety, I came to see that duplicity often shows itse...

01 de jan. de 1978

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered pale-hued areas of...

09 de ago. de 1993

Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms...

01 de jan. de 1990

Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approachi...

26 de abr. de 1999

The final Duplicity film does seem at resolve with the term. All previous visual manifestations have been extended to their limits, through four-ro...

01 de jan. de 1980

"Black Vision is inspired by the only passage in Jean Paul Sartre's writings which has ever specifically concerned me – the passage from Nausea whe...

10 de ago. de 1965

"This is a portrait of that man I choose to call the greatest I've known: Clancy, whom the fates surnamed Sheey, personifies for me that which is s...

01 de jan. de 1974

Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their "weave" with each other whi...

26 de fev. de 1996

This is the only all-inclusive autobiography I've yet managed; and as I'm still alive, it is to be understood as a metaphor which defines the limit...

01 de jan. de 1971

The Jesus Trilogy and Coda is composed of the four following parts: (1) IN JESUS NAME presents an almost continuous fluttering movement midst the ...

22 de nov. de 2000

Peripheral envisionment of daily life as the mind has it - i.e., a terrifying ecstasy of (hand-painted) synapting nerve ends back-firing from thoug...

06 de fev. de 1993

SONG 26: a conversation piece–a viz-a-visual, inspired by the (e)motional properties of talk: drone, bird-like twitterings, statement terror, & bom...

01 de jan. de 1968

SONG 14: Molds, paints and crystals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced ...

03 de set. de 1965

This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and...

27 de jun. de 1978

"The ecstatic, mythic montage of Alaskan landscapes" is also "about the act of making" and an antidote to the stodgy notion that life crawled forth...

02 de jan. de 1979

Brakhage's frame-by-frame hand carvings and etchings directly into the film emulsion, sometimes photographically combined with paint, are illuminat...

23 de set. de 2002

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against da...

18 de jan. de 1981

This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should c...

13 de out. de 1995

A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child - a shattering of the "myths of childhood" through revelat...

28 de mar. de 1968

01 de jan. de 1991

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in ...

30 de jan. de 1967

This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.

28 de mar. de 1981

01 de jan. de 1989

In this experimental short film, Kristian Day collected artwork created by the public. He found the majority of the pieces at "Sharpie marker demon...

07 de mai. de 2011

"With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against da...

17 de jan. de 1981

Here are a couple films from the mid-'60s, given to Gordon Rosenblum at the time, which surfaced this year needing preservation. I don't know what ...

01 de jan. de 1965

LOVESONG 2 is a rapid recapitulation of the tactics of Lovesong, without the multiple rhythms of variable step-printing: it is a straight frame-to-...

01 de jan. de 2001

An 18-part series of colorful shorts, made by Stan Brakhage between 1999 and 2001.

23 de out. de 2001

This film, a combination of hand-painting and photography, is a fulsome exposition of the themes of DOG STAR MAN. In that early epic I had envision...

09 de out. de 1997

SONGS 24 & 25: A naked boy and flute song; a being about nature (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmm...

22 de abr. de 1967

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against da...

17 de jan. de 1981

An anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There's a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls. On a remote roa...

01 de jan. de 1953

Persian Series #18 is almost calligraphic in its overlays of dark (occasionally colored) glyphs backed by brilliant color motifs.

14 de nov. de 2001

Persian Series #14 is composed of muted color-shapes shifting variably in juxtaposition and contrast with high-contrast black & white abstract patt...

14 de nov. de 2001

Someone said to me, of this film, that it was really about light; but Jane (who takes it as a portrait – i. e., sees herself in it) said: You gave ...

01 de jan. de 1985

In this haunting but lyrical meditation on war, Brakhage intercuts 8-mm footage of Colorado with imagery from WWII newsreels. He responds to the vi...

27 de jan. de 1967

Pale petal and stem-like shapes counter punted rhythmically by an even paler "background" of truly ephemeral of truly ephemeral (almost invisible) ...

28 de mar. de 2000

“I have made my Visions in Meditation in homage to Gertrude Stein’s whole meditative oeuvre epitomized by her Stanzas in Meditation."

01 de jan. de 1990

This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial environ wh...

09 de ago. de 1972

Featuring stylized visual storytelling, this rarely seen film by famed experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage was produced for the Colorado Departmen...

01 de jan. de 1961

Colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two began with strips of film Brakhage had painted on by hand, photographing them frame by...

01 de jan. de 1994

Portrait of Jesse Collins: a daydream nightmare in the surrealist tradition.

01 de jan. de 1955

Black atmosphere, with depth-enhancing points of light, broken into shades of dim silhouettes by the ephemeral cloud-glow of lightning.

25 de out. de 1965

Persian Series #17 is a series of quite distinct globules of paint brilliantly colored and shifting as if vertically in the plane (as different fro...

14 de nov. de 2001

Song 28: Scenes as texture (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964...

01 de jan. de 1969

"Hot" by-play of reds-greens-yellows in black, blurred, finally, as the color shapes are shifted violently from side to side, finally ending of a s...

11 de ago. de 2000

This, the sixth film of the SINCERITY/DUPLICITY series, seems rooted in the earliest tradition of my work, Psycho-Drama, as well as in the most rec...

10 de fev. de 1979

"The quote is Joseph Conrad answering a critic who found his books too long. Conrad replied that he could write a novel on the inside of a match-bo...

01 de jan. de 1974

A depiction of the creative process of hand-painting film giant, Stan Brakhage. Inspired by Monet's paintings from Giverny, Brakhage's luminous abs...

09 de ago. de 2001

OPEN FIELD is in the mind, of course, and exists as a weave of trees, grasses, waters, and bodies poised and fleeting at childhood's end. The scene...

20 de mai. de 1973

This is a hand-painted step-printed film which begins with slow dissolves of what appear to be decaying leaves, crumpled browns and golds and orang...

01 de jan. de 1996

A “found object of paint and mold” given to Brakhage by the poet David Meltzer. According to Jane Brakhage, Stan did nothing to it but see it, spli...

25 de dez. de 1973

A series of five hand-painted, step-printed films, each of which is a textured, thus tangible, "nothing." A series of "nots," then, in pun, or knot...

01 de jan. de 1994

This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

01 de set. de 1993

Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to multi-co...

26 de fev. de 1996

Persian Series #15 is a rapid shift of patterns black & white playing off against muted coils of color.

14 de nov. de 2001

Dedicated to Doug Edwards. All titles dominate linguistically; in that sense, any film would be better left unnamed. This little hand-painted work...

01 de jan. de 1993

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage...

20 de abr. de 1966

A deconstruction of Dog Star Man that takes the four rolls and shows them first combined, then each combination of three rolls, then each combinati...

20 de mai. de 1965

Short B/W film about the textures of the human skin and household objects, showing Brakhage in the morning as reality distorts around him. Revised ...

06 de jan. de 1956

SONG 29: A portrait of the artist's mother (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage pr...

01 de jan. de 1969

Second Part of Song 27 (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to ...

12 de abr. de 1969

Persian Series #16 is an even more exaggerated contrast of color and black-and-white patterning.

14 de nov. de 2001

This is one of the most elaborately edited of all the hand-painted films of late - a Haydenesque complexity of thematic variations on a totally vis...

01 de jan. de 1993

Very pale, thin, hieroglyphic pinks, greens and blues in a white space which is thickened over by ribbed mashes of these colors which "dissolve" in...

28 de mar. de 2000

Section Ill is the most abstract section of the four, and the only one which does not contain old photographic material. The means used in previous...

19 de dez. de 1969

"I've printed each single frame 12 times or 8 times [...] This permits people to study a it little more [...] There's a horseman, a woman and a mot...

01 de jan. de 1972

Lost film directed by Stan Brakhage. Possibly never existed.

01 de jan. de 1953

This is the realization of a 30 year old dream, a wish of the young filmmaker to film a modern Faust which finally came to a fulfillment as unpredi...

13 de mar. de 1987

SONGS 19 & 20: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage prod...

20 de abr. de 1966

BLUE WHITE, "an intonation of child birth"; BLOOD'S TONE, "a golden nursing film"; VEIN, "a film of baby Buddha masturbation."

04 de set. de 1965

This, the second film of the continuing autobiographical Duplicity series, is composed of superimpositions much as the mind "dupes" remembered expe...

01 de jan. de 1978

A thin oval of green-tinged light in thick darkness persists, then gradually descends below the bottom of the frame and, after a pause, rises again...

01 de jan. de 1996

Directly in the tradition of SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: Motel, this "sequel" does explore further possibilities of nudes in a room. - Canyon Cinema

01 de jan. de 1971

Ken, Flo and Nisi Jacobs in the Syracuse Airport: this is what you might call baby-sitting in the swamp.

16 de ago. de 1971

“[Passage Through] required the most exacting editing process ever; and in the course of that work it occurred to me that I’d originally made 'The ...

15 de jul. de 1990

This work, composed of six rolls of superimposed images set to Tenney’s electronic music track ‘Blue Suede’, is a celebration of the balletic restr...

05 de mai. de 1991

The culmination of a series of autobiographical films that Brakhage made about his family (collectively known as The Book of Family), Tortured Dust...

13 de abr. de 1984

This, the third of the Sexual Meditation Series, might also be seen as a triangular portrait of Julia and P. Adams Sitney and Jane Brakhage.

09 de ago. de 1972

Ten deliberately untitled films, each separated on the reel by several ft of black leader. #1 begins with blue negative face of child, ends with si...

01 de jan. de 1975

Made during the height of the Vietnam War, Stan Brakhage has said of this film that he was hoping to bring some clarity to the subject of war. Char...

27 de jan. de 1967

This continuation of my autobiography is composed of film photographed by many people: Bruce Baillie, Jane Brakhage, Larry Jordan and Stan Phillips...

01 de jan. de 1975

The first film of mine which is so very much there where it's at THAT it deserves visual symbol as title and no further explanation from me at/et? ...

01 de jan. de 1979

A psychodrama. A being-without-clothes (as inspired by the painter Paul Delvaux). A film which searches thru two women its definitive 'The.'

01 de jan. de 1973

In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows...

01 de jan. de 1957

A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the ‘myths of childhood’ through revelat...

24 de jul. de 1970

“Begins with a portrait of the filmmaker’s father, moves through imagery of various forms of transportation (cars, boats, trains, and planes), and ...

01 de jan. de 1969

SONG 16: A flowering of sex as in the mind’s eye, a joy (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Sta...

20 de abr. de 1966

SONGS 19: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced ...

20 de abr. de 1966

This film of single-strand photography begins with the "fire" of reflective light on water and on the barest inferences of a ship. Throughout, the ...

28 de mar. de 2000

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against da...

17 de jan. de 1981

After a six -or seven- year study of Hammurabi's Code, original Babylonian Text and translation, I've tried to feel my way into the moving visual t...

10 de dez. de 1989

In Section II we see a series of discrete sequences showing the children, now somewhat older, in different types of play. They manipulate tiny obje...

06 de mai. de 1969

Persian Series #13 is a series of extremely dark images, mostly in purples, greens, and fiery red-orange-yellows, shifting one to another in displa...

14 de nov. de 2001

The term "The Weir-Falcon Saga" appeared to me, night after night, at the end of a series of dreams: I was "true" to the feeling, tho not the image...

09 de set. de 1970

A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS ...

03 de set. de 1965

SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmake...

20 de abr. de 1966

Begins with rocks, tree trucks, plants in glow of light, ends with green and gold forest scene.

01 de jan. de 1975

Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos i...

This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I've had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us. (SB)

01 de jan. de 1978

"HER" to me is always Jane, in the first place, but also Hera: "goddess of women and marriage," naturally enough. Then, too, as it is a hymn of lig...

07 de set. de 1974

Image-by-image study of the Arapaho summit, in all seasons for two years; the clouds and the climate that carve this place in the landscape (the S...

12 de abr. de 1969

An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower, ...

05 de jul. de 1979

Jane and the kids go to town. Directly in the tradition of SCENES FROM UNDER CHILDHOOD, this film may indeed constitute a 3rd chapter to 'The Book ...

16 de ago. de 1971

Section IV is the longest of the four parts and the one in which the photographic material from the past plays the most prominent role. We see more...

12 de fev. de 1970

The hand-painting of this film is interrupted by, and interspersed with, a geometrically structured Mask of Death (one of those frightening human i...

01 de jan. de 1994

The Presence reflects some sight of Insect as Being. The Imagined aura and environment of a beetle creates a 'world' wherein this solitary insect m...

01 de jan. de 1972

In Criterion’s first volume of the anthology By Brakhage, we brought twenty-six astonishing works by the avant-garde film pioneer Stan Brakhage to ...

25 de mai. de 2010

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against da...

18 de jan. de 1981

They are travelogues in photographic fact and in the mind. Unable to afford printing them, I had stuck them in a drawer. The first was made in 1991...

01 de jan. de 1995

A thumbnail History of the Western World, all centered around the basketball court. - Canyon Cinema

01 de jan. de 1971

"Every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's wor...

28 de mar. de 1981

At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain, "Caswa...

01 de jan. de 1986

A series of meditations on Egyptian hieroglyphs – designations (as I finally saw them) of nurturing godheads.

01 de jan. de 1983

Portrait of the great chess master, aesthetician, human being, Eugene Salome.

01 de jan. de 1980

"The third and shortest section reintroduces camera-derived imagery and, minimal as it may be (sunlight shimmering on water, seagull wheeling in th...

04 de jan. de 1998

SONGS 24 & 25: A naked boy and flute song; a being about nature (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmm...

22 de abr. de 1967

SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmake...

20 de abr. de 1966

“Faust Part 2” reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from the Greek idein, "to see"); also, a journey of the id. A sense of s...

01 de jan. de 1988

"after + math (((mowing, crop))) a second growth crop" ... this my strongest attack on pop culture, the movies, TV, etc. - what CAN be done with it...

27 de mar. de 1981

Music by Rick Corrigan. This is the imaged thought process of young Faust escaping the unbearable pictures of his broken romantic idyll, mentally f...

03 de nov. de 1989

This is a hand-painted work which involves a variety of colors applied within gouged and scratched shapes which approximate both swift shifts of bi...

14 de fev. de 1999

This is a photographed filmic searching-for-whales, the camerawork and editing attempting to approximate something of the rubbing up against water ...

16 de mai. de 1999

"This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a...

23 de dez. de 1976

Every year, the VIENNALE invites an outstanding film artist to create the festivals trailer. For this year, Stan Brakhage provided the festival wit...

18 de out. de 2002

A natural companion piece to Lovesong 3, this (also hand-painted) work counterbalances the rhythmic irregularities and, one might say, temporal des...

01 de abr. de 2001

This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of the experience of living there. The consciousnes...

01 de jan. de 1990

This film is an elaborately hand-painted step-printed work composed primarily of luminescent greens and blues in constantly shifting symmetrical sh...

01 de jan. de 1995

"I had a camera with which I could make multiple superimpositions spontaneously. It had been lent to me for a week. I was also given a couple of ro...

01 de jan. de 1961

This is then the property of many angels.

01 de jan. de 1971

This is a hand-painted work whose shapes are scratched on black leader filled with varieties of color: the resultant shapes tend to suggest insect-...

26 de fev. de 1999

Part of The Dante Quartet. Also extant in a slightly different form as a standalone 1-minute film. "My moving-visual response to William Blake's "T...

01 de jan. de 1983

A hand-painted work beginning with a thicket of curled black lines over flesh tones shaping briefly into sex organs. There is a sense of pulsing da...

01 de mai. de 2001

Wedding gift from Maya Deren to Geoffrey Holder; Stan Brakhage and Larry Jordan made film of wedding at Maya Deren’s invitation, told to be “as fre...

07 de jul. de 1955

This little hand-painted film was over-a-year in the making, and absolutely dependent upon a quality of "broad-stroke" in the painting which I thin...

01 de jan. de 1996

One of Brakhage's series of short films painted directly on film, from 1999. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. With interest in m...

01 de set. de 2002

In the autobiographical tradition of the earlier Sincerities, this film takes up the light-threads of our living 14 years ago when the Brakhage fam...

01 de jan. de 1978

Ascension begins by superimposing paintings that look like clouds over extremely close views of mottled paint, peculiarly intimate in their three-d...

11 de set. de 2002

Arabic Numeral Series

19 de jan. de 1982

Three TV "concretes."

13 de mai. de 1963

This film was originally photographed in 1970 in regular 8mm. It was, a decade later, blown up to 16mm so that it could join the rest of the Sexual...

01 de jan. de 1970

Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and scrat...

01 de jan. de 1975

Three qualities of hand- painted imagery inter-weave throughout this film: (1) a mash of thick lines delineating colored shapes, (2) thin black lin...

01 de mar. de 2001

A bold attempt, full of visual sensibility, to use living animals, innocuous of their roles, as abstract counters in a tone poem of color and chiar...

01 de jan. de 1956

Shots of city and country life come together to form an impressionistic whole. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

01 de jan. de 1956

Super-8 film by Stan Brakhage. “brief songs of light and line”

01 de jan. de 1976

A tale of two gold miners of the old west who struck it rich. The lonely life made them heavy drinkers, and one night when the heavyset and silent ...

01 de jan. de 1960