Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1993
    Z (Zee Not Zed)

    Z (Zee Not Zed)

    Z (Zee Not Zed)

    01993HD

    Stan Brakhage with a movie camera. Winter seascapes.

    Z (Zee Not Zed)
  • 2001
    Garden Path

    Garden Path

    Garden Path

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    A depiction of the creative process of hand-painting film giant, Stan Brakhage. Inspired by Monet's paintings from Giverny, Brakhage's luminous...

    Garden Path
  • 1969
    My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers

    My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers

    My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers

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    Second Part of Song 27 (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to...

    My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers
  • 1994
    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

    7.51994HD

    This was an unfinished collaboration with Stan Brakhage. This film was actually screened publicly at least a few times, including at Pacific Film...

    Alternating Currents
  • 1986
    Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander

    Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander

    Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander

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    At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain,...

    Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander
  • 1964
    Song 8

    Song 8

    Song 8

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    SONG 8: Sea Creatures. The Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1963 to...

    Song 8
  • 1978
    Duplicity I

    Duplicity I

    Duplicity I

    71978HD

    A friend of many years' acquaintance showed me the duplicity of myself. And, midst guilt and anxiety, I came to see that duplicity often shows itself...

    Duplicity I
  • 1996
    Shockingly Hot

    Shockingly Hot

    Shockingly Hot

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    This little hand-painted film was over-a-year in the making, and absolutely dependent upon a quality of "broad-stroke" in the painting which I think...

    Shockingly Hot
  • 1956
    Trumpit

    Trumpit

    Trumpit

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    Featuring a card game played on the body of a naked woman, Lawrence Jordan portrays male sexual frustration while slyly satirizing Hollywood reaction...

    Trumpit
  • 1966
    Pasht

    Pasht

    Pasht

    3.91966HD

    In honor of the cat, so named, and the goddess of all cats which she was named after. - CAT Film Festival

    Pasht
  • 1998

    "..." Reel 1

    "..." Reel 1

    41998HD

    This work is in five reels (numbered, but called "reels" so that they don't take on the connotations of "Parts" - thus each simply a part of the...

  • 2003
    Encomium

    Encomium

    Encomium

    02003HD

    I shot this roll of film at a party Bard College threw when it awarded Stan Brakhage an honorary degree. A few days after he died, I dug it out and...

    Encomium
  • 1988
    Rage Net

    Rage Net

    Rage Net

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    Another of Brakhage’s works of “moving visual thinking,” Rage Net reminds one of the vibrant pioneering experiments of European...

    Rage Net
  • 1984
    Tortured Dust

    Tortured Dust

    Tortured Dust

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    The culmination of a series of autobiographical films that Brakhage made about his family (collectively known as The Book of Family), Tortured Dust...

    Tortured Dust
  • 1997
    Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos

    Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos

    Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos

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    Brakhage's lecture at the Whitney Museum is a thoughtful meditation on another friend and fellow filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos.

    Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos
  • 2002
    Song of the Mushroom

    Song of the Mushroom

    Song of the Mushroom

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    Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. With interest in...

    Song of the Mushroom
  • 1987
    The Dante Quartet

    The Dante Quartet

    The Dante Quartet

    6.2921987HD

    A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a...

    The Dante Quartet
  • 2025
    Derealization

    Derealization

    Derealization

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    A schizophrenic high school student makes his way through a psychotic episode

    Derealization
  • 1986
    The Aerodyne

    The Aerodyne

    The Aerodyne

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    At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain,...

    The Aerodyne
  • 1991
    Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse

    Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse

    Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse

    91991HD

    To the child mind, the transformative sacrificial power of "O, Lamb of God" is a daily manifestation - not as an adult shift-of-interest, but rather...

    Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse