Stan Brakhage Movies

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

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

"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...

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

A film by Stan Brakhage.

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

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

A film by experimantal filmmaker Stan Brakhage.

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

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),...

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...

"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...

"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...

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...

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...