Stan Brakhage Movies

Singly-printed evolution from a deep blue-blackness of hard-edge twisting and sweeping bars and deep black swirls of dry-cracked and electrically...

"This film rises out of my struggle to photograph the ephemeral qualities of varied air (as many Greek philosophers experienced such) and to arrange...

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...

Begins with white lamp post, green tree leaves, and window, ends with flashing window light on brown wall of motel room.

Experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage utilized previously unused personal archival footage to construct the autobiographical Sincerity.

Cats in the night.

Brakhage film from 2000, distributed by CFDC

Begins with raccoon in a rose light, ends with fading face of child.

Begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with a candle wick burning, circled by boiling gold flecks.

Begins with green tiled bathroom ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman.

Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city.

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

A very personal lecture on filmmaker and friend Jim Davis.

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

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...

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. —SB

“Films made by the five Brakhage children; Brakhage arranged them in this form but did not edit them.” –Robert Haller

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...