Movies

  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

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

    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)
  • 1974
    Dominion

    Dominion

    Dominion

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    The "Dynamo theories" of Henry Adams portrayed first person/sexual vision: an American businessman as lord of all he surveys.

    Dominion
  • 1974
    Hymn to Her

    Hymn to Her

    Hymn to Her

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    "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...

    Hymn to Her
  • 1969
    Nuptiae

    Nuptiae

    Nuptiae

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    This film celebrates weddings and being wed, and the union of opposites in everything everywhere.

    Nuptiae
  • 1989
    Faust IV

    Faust IV

    Faust IV

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

    Faust IV
  • 1961
    Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie

    Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie

    Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie

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    "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...

    Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie
  • 1986
    The Loom

    The Loom

    The Loom

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

    The Loom
  • 1968
    The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth

    The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth

    The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth

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    Hand painting, dye treatments and direct collage edited into 'themes and variations' that tell 'a thousand and one' stories. - Stan Brakhage

    The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth
  • 1995
    Earthen Aerie

    Earthen Aerie

    Earthen Aerie

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    This hand-painted, step-printed film begins with several seconds of blank white (interrupted by red and brief electric yellow) and then proceeds to...

    Earthen Aerie
  • 1980
    Roman Numeral: VIII

    Roman Numeral: VIII

    Roman Numeral: VIII

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    A film by Stan Brakhage.

    Roman Numeral: VIII
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

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    Begins with blue negative face of child, ends with single centered eye.

    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)

    Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)

    Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)

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

    Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)
  • 2002
    Ascension

    Ascension

    Ascension

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    A film by experimantal filmmaker Stan Brakhage.

    Ascension
  • 1976
    Sketches

    Sketches

    Sketches

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

    Sketches
  • 1976
    The Dream, NYC, The Return, The Flower

    The Dream, NYC, The Return, The Flower

    The Dream, NYC, The Return, The Flower

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    The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. (S.B.) THE DREAM: 4:20 (18fps), 3:15 (24fps) N.Y.C.: 17:17 (18fps),...

    The Dream, NYC, The Return, The Flower
  • 1989
    Babylon Series #1

    Babylon Series #1

    Babylon Series #1

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    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...

    Babylon Series #1
  • 1974
    Clancy

    Clancy

    Clancy

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    "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...

    Clancy
  • 1977
    The Governor

    The Governor

    The Governor

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    "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 at...

    The Governor
  • 1957
    Loving

    Loving

    Loving

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    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...

    Loving
  • 1970
    The Animals of Eden and After

    The Animals of Eden and After

    The Animals of Eden and After

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    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...

    The Animals of Eden and After