Movies

  • 1996
    Prelude 17

    Prelude 17

    Prelude 17

    21996HD

    Double-printed thinnest possible lines and multiple dots of pale color interwoven with sweeps of linear tones in swiftly transversing motion, all...

    Prelude 17
  • 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

    01961HD

    "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
  • 1981
    Stan & Jane Brakhage

    Stan & Jane Brakhage

    Stan & Jane Brakhage

    61981HD

    A poignant portrait of Stan and Jane Brakhage visiting Juarez.

    Stan & Jane Brakhage
  • 1999
    Cloud Chamber

    Cloud Chamber

    Cloud Chamber

    01999HD

    This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...

    Cloud Chamber
  • 1953
    The Boy and the Sea

    The Boy and the Sea

    The Boy and the Sea

    01953HD

    Lost film directed by Stan Brakhage

    The Boy and the Sea
  • 1956
    Nightcats

    Nightcats

    Nightcats

    01956HD

    Cats in the night.

    Nightcats
  • 2000
    Dance

    Dance

    Dance

    02000HD

    This film begins with points of light defining a dark space out of which a female dancer (Vivienne Palmer) emerges dressed in a semi-transparent...

    Dance
  • 1976
    Airs

    Airs

    Airs

    01976HD

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

    Airs
  • 1996
    Prelude 18

    Prelude 18

    Prelude 18

    21996HD

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

    Prelude 18
  • 1968
    Song 26

    Song 26

    Song 26

    81968HD

    SONG 26: a conversation piece–a viz-a-visual, inspired by the (e)motional properties of talk: drone, bird-like twitterings, statement terror, &...

    Song 26
  • 1979
    Roman Numeral: I

    Roman Numeral: I

    Roman Numeral: I

    81979HD

    An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower,...

    Roman Numeral: I
  • 1996
    Prelude 15

    Prelude 15

    Prelude 15

    21996HD

    Doubly-printed striations of "brush-strokes" through multicolored "rock" forms dissolving then to blackened "mud" eliciting increasing sense of being...

    Prelude 15
  • 1967
    Song 25

    Song 25

    Song 25

    81967HD

    SONGS 24 & 25: A naked boy and flute song; a being about nature (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental...

    Song 25
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

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

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

    01975HD

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

    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
  • 1990
    Visions in Meditation

    Visions in Meditation

    Visions in Meditation

    7.51990HD

    Four meditative experimental short films.

    Visions in Meditation
  • 1981
    Arabic Numeral Series 2

    Arabic Numeral Series 2

    Arabic Numeral Series 2

    101981HD

    “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 2
  • 1971
    Angels'

    Angels'

    Angels'

    01971HD

    This is then the property of many angels.

    Angels'
  • 1969
    American 30's Song

    American 30's Song

    American 30's Song

    4.51969HD

    “Begins with a portrait of the filmmaker’s father, moves through imagery of various forms of transportation (cars, boats, trains, and...

    American 30's Song
  • 1970
    Eyes

    Eyes

    Eyes

    5.51970HD

    “After wishing for years to be given the opportunity of filming some of the more “mystical” occupations of our Times – which...

    Eyes
  • 1996
    Prelude 22

    Prelude 22

    Prelude 22

    21996HD

    Prelude 22 is a singly-printed hand-painted thick black and gold swatches of color which evolve into forms that are horizontally and vertically...

    Prelude 22