Stan Brakhage Movies

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?...

What can one say? – that won’t limit by language the complexity of moving visual thinking?… the skein of pattern that seeks to...

This companion to Marilyn's Window was Brakhage housebound when he made this film.

A hand-painted elaborately step-printed film which begins in blues and greens with golden geographic-beseeming continents which evolve into...

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

“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...

This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was...

This work is in five reels (numbered, but called "reels" so that they don't take on the connotations of "Parts" - thus each simply a part of the...

The third in this series of Imagnostic Films seems particularly magic to me in as much as I cannot even remember the photographic source of these...

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

“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...

“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...

Three TV "concretes."

This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and...

“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...

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

A poignant portrait of Stan and Jane Brakhage visiting Juarez.

Four films verging on portraiture, converging to make a drama for all seasons, starring: Jane Brakhage as The Dreamer; Bob Benson as The Magnificent...

Part two of the Caswallon Trilogy

This film, one of the most perfect ever given to me to make, was inspired by the series of paintings of the same title by Edward Hicks. - SB