Stan Brakhage Movies
- 1997
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis01997HD
- 2001
Micro Garden
Micro Garden62001HD
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...
- 1988
Marilyn's Window
Marilyn's Window01988HD
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"...
- 1982
Arabic Numeral Series 19
Arabic Numeral Series 19101982HD
“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...
- 1966
Song 17
Song 1781966HD
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...
- 1974
Hymn to Her
Hymn to Her01974HD
"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...
- 1996
Prelude 17
Prelude 1721996HD
Double-printed thinnest possible lines and multiple dots of pale color interwoven with sweeps of linear tones in swiftly transversing motion, all...
- 1970
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four31970HD
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...
- 1961
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie01961HD
"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...
- 1981
Stan & Jane Brakhage
Stan & Jane Brakhage61981HD
A poignant portrait of Stan and Jane Brakhage visiting Juarez.
- 1995
The Lost Films
The Lost Films71995HD
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,...
- 1999
Cloud Chamber
Cloud Chamber01999HD
This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...
- 1953
The Boy and the Sea
The Boy and the Sea01953HD
Lost film directed by Stan Brakhage
- 1957
Daybreak and Whiteye
Daybreak and Whiteye01957HD
These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...
- 1982
Arabic Numeral Series 16
Arabic Numeral Series 16101982HD
“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...
- 1981
Nodes
Nodes01981HD
"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...
- 1976
Airs
Airs01976HD
"This film rises out of my struggle to photograph the ephemeral qualities of varied air (as many Greek philosophers experienced such) and to arrange...
- 1968
Song 26
Song 2681968HD
SONG 26: a conversation piece–a viz-a-visual, inspired by the (e)motional properties of talk: drone, bird-like twitterings, statement terror, &...
- 1957
Loving
Loving01957HD
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...
- 1980
Roman Numeral: V
Roman Numeral: V01980HD
An imagery sharp as stars and hard as the thought-universe (turning back upon itself) absorbed in gentle patterns of contemplation. – S.B.