Stan Brakhage Movies
- 1996
Prelude 18
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Singly-printed evolution from a deep blue-blackness of hard-edge twisting and sweeping bars and deep black swirls of dry-cracked and electrically...
- 1976
Airs
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"This film rises out of my struggle to photograph the ephemeral qualities of varied air (as many Greek philosophers experienced such) and to arrange...
- 1980
Roman Numeral: IV
Roman Numeral: IV01980HD
It was while studying this film that I decided to group these ‘romans’ under the title Roman Numeral Series and to give up the term...
- 1975
Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)
Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)01975HD
Begins with white lamp post, green tree leaves, and window, ends with flashing window light on brown wall of motel room.
- 1980
Sincerity
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Experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage utilized previously unused personal archival footage to construct the autobiographical Sincerity.
- 1956
Nightcats
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Cats in the night.
- 2000
Cornell's Portrait of June
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Brakhage film from 2000, distributed by CFDC
- 1975
Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)01975HD
Begins with raccoon in a rose light, ends with fading face of child.
- 1975
Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles)
Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles)01975HD
Begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with a candle wick burning, circled by boiling gold flecks.
- 1975
Short Films 1975: #4 (Jane’s Memory)
Short Films 1975: #4 (Jane’s Memory)01975HD
Begins with green tiled bathroom ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman.
- 1975
Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)01975HD
Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city.
- 2002
Song of the Mushroom
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Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. With interest in...
- 1997
Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis
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A very personal lecture on filmmaker and friend Jim Davis.
- 1975
Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)
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Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and...
- 1970
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel01970HD
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...
- 1976
Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane
Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane01976HD
The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. —SB
- 1969
Window Suite of Children's Songs
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“Films made by the five Brakhage children; Brakhage arranged them in this form but did not edit them.” –Robert Haller
- 1972
The Shores of Phos: A Fable
The Shores of Phos: A Fable01972HD
Phos equals light, but then I did also want that word within the title which would designate place, as within the nationalities of "the fabulous" - a...