Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1997
    Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis

    Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis

    Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis

    01997HD

    Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis
  • 2001
    Micro Garden

    Micro Garden

    Micro Garden

    62001HD

    Red and ephemeral blue and purple plant shapes half-curled against a tan ground, which begins to flash white cracks in dried mud patterns. A flush of...

    Micro Garden
  • 1988
    Marilyn's Window

    Marilyn's Window

    Marilyn's Window

    01988HD

    This stream-of-consciousness could be nothing less than pathway of the soul, as images of Marilyn's window are remembered from inside-out, its "view"...

    Marilyn's Window
  • 1982
    Arabic Numeral Series 19

    Arabic Numeral Series 19

    Arabic Numeral Series 19

    101982HD

    “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 19
  • 1966
    Song 17

    Song 17

    Song 17

    81966HD

    SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker...

    Song 17
  • 1974
    Hymn to Her

    Hymn to Her

    Hymn to Her

    01974HD

    "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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1995
    The Lost Films

    The Lost Films

    The Lost Films

    71995HD

    They are travelogues in photographic fact and in the mind. Unable to afford printing them, I had stuck them in a drawer. The first was made in 1991,...

    The Lost Films
  • 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
  • 1957
    Daybreak and Whiteye

    Daybreak and Whiteye

    Daybreak and Whiteye

    01957HD

    These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

    Daybreak and Whiteye
  • 1982
    Arabic Numeral Series 16

    Arabic Numeral Series 16

    Arabic Numeral Series 16

    101982HD

    “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 16
  • 1981
    Nodes

    Nodes

    Nodes

    01981HD

    "nodus knot, node - more at NET) ... 4a: a point at which subsidiary parts originate or center ... 5: a point, line, or surface of a vibrating body...

    Nodes
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1957
    Loving

    Loving

    Loving

    01957HD

    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
  • 1980
    Roman Numeral: V

    Roman Numeral: V

    Roman Numeral: V

    01980HD

    An imagery sharp as stars and hard as the thought-universe (turning back upon itself) absorbed in gentle patterns of contemplation. – S.B.

    Roman Numeral: V