Movies

  • 1998

    "..." Reel 2

    "..." Reel 2

    41998HD

    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...

  • 1992
    Interpolations I-V

    Interpolations I-V

    Interpolations I-V

    01992HD

    "The full 35-millimeter frame allows for more detail and diversity than Brakhage's customary narrower gauges. In the first section, multicolored...

    Interpolations I-V
  • 1972
    Eye Myth Educational

    Eye Myth Educational

    Eye Myth Educational

    5.51972HD

    "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 moth...

    Eye Myth Educational
  • 1996
    Through Wounded Eyes

    Through Wounded Eyes

    Through Wounded Eyes

    01996HD

    "This film is a collaboration between Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. It is a hand-painted film incorporating treated film images of trees in Fall...

    Through Wounded Eyes
  • 1995
    As Is Was

    As Is Was

    As Is Was

    01995HD

    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...

    As Is Was
  • 1979
    Creation

    Creation

    Creation

    51979HD

    "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...

    Creation
  • 1980
    4A

    4A

    4A

    01980HD

    A hand-painted Brakhage film made specifically for Anthology Film Archives.

    4A
  • 1956
    Trumpit

    Trumpit

    Trumpit

    4.41956HD

    Featuring a card game played on the body of a naked woman, Lawrence Jordan portrays male sexual frustration while slyly satirizing Hollywood reaction...

    Trumpit
  • 1970
    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four

    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four

    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four

    31970HD

    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...

    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four
  • 1993
    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    4.71993HD

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

    Tryst Haunt
  • 1993
    The Harrowing

    The Harrowing

    The Harrowing

    5.21993HD

    A hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to create varieties of tempo in mimic of sparking and molten rock.

    The Harrowing
  • 1988
    Faust's Other: An Idyll

    Faust's Other: An Idyll

    Faust's Other: An Idyll

    51988HD

    “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...

    Faust's Other: An Idyll
  • 1981
    Arabic Numeral Series 7

    Arabic Numeral Series 7

    Arabic Numeral Series 7

    6.51981HD

    “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...

    Arabic Numeral Series 7
  • 2001
    Persian Series

    Persian Series

    Persian Series

    6.52001HD

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

    Persian Series
  • 2000
    Water for Maya

    Water for Maya

    Water for Maya

    4.62000HD

    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...

    Water for Maya
  • 2002
    Vakvagany

    Vakvagany

    Vakvagany

    102002HD

    Hungarian home movies are examined by the likes of James Ellroy and Stan Brakhage for evidence of family problems.

    Vakvagany
  • 1994
    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

    61994HD

    This was an unfinished collaboration with Stan Brakhage. This film was actually screened publicly at least a few times, including at Pacific Film...

    Alternating Currents
  • 1974
    Flight

    Flight

    Flight

    01974HD

    Pun on "light" intended - that short preceding expulsion of breath perhaps the "subject matter" of this film which centers in consideration of death....

    Flight
  • 2002
    Panels for the Walls of Heaven

    Panels for the Walls of Heaven

    Panels for the Walls of Heaven

    102002HD

    The last of Brakhage's longer works. Part of the "Vancouver Island" films.

    Panels for the Walls of Heaven
  • 1986
    Confession

    Confession

    Confession

    01986HD

    "Firstly, I revealed in salutary confession the secret filth of my misdeed, which had long been festering in stagnant silence; and I made it my...

    Confession