Stan Brakhage Movies

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...

A film photographed in Amsterdam but dedicated to capturing a quality of mind engendered there - not, certainly, alienation (as often in travel) but...

In the autobiographical tradition of the earlier Sincerities, this film takes up the light-threads of our living 14 years ago when the Brakhage...

This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

The final Duplicity film does seem at resolve with the term. All previous visual manifestations have been extended to their limits, through four-roll...

In this non-orange negative of a hand-painted film, a series of luminously pastel shapes – often patches of color against a stark white...

Dedicated to Doug Edwards. All titles dominate linguistically; in that sense, any film would be better left unnamed. This little hand-painted work...

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...

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

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,...

The film by Brakhage commonly referred to as "Wecht" does indeed exist. It doesn't have a titlecard at the head, and the leader of the original is...

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

This, the first completed reel of work-in-progress, draws on autobiographical energies and images which reflect the first 20 years of my living. I...

"The full 35-millimeter frame allows for more detail and diversity than Brakhage's customary narrower gauges. In the first section, multicolored...

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

"...Series of narrative events, stories if you like, but so clustered visually as to have a center so to speak, slightly off center."

The Presence reflects some sight of Insect as Being. The Imagined aura and environment of a beetle creates a 'world' wherein this solitary insect may...

SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to...

A hand-painted elaborately step-printed film which begins in blues and greens with golden geographic-beseeming continents which evolve into...

Pun on "light" intended - that short preceding expulsion of breath perhaps the "subject matter" of this film which centers in consideration of death....