Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1980
    Roman Numeral: VII

    Roman Numeral: VII

    Roman Numeral: VII

    01980HD

    What can one say? – that won’t limit by language the complexity of moving visual thinking?… the skein of pattern that seeks to...

    Roman Numeral: VII
  • 1995
    Paranoia Corridor

    Paranoia Corridor

    Paranoia Corridor

    01995HD

    This film is an elaborately hand-painted step-printed work composed primarily of luminescent greens and blues in constantly shifting symmetrical...

    Paranoia Corridor
  • 2006
    Brakhage Crosses Central Park

    Brakhage Crosses Central Park

    Brakhage Crosses Central Park

    42006HD

    Clip from Walden.

    Brakhage Crosses Central Park
  • 2002
    Song of the Mushroom

    Song of the Mushroom

    Song of the Mushroom

    02002HD

    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
  • 1986
    Invocation: Maya Deren

    Invocation: Maya Deren

    Invocation: Maya Deren

    51986HD

    Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...

    Invocation: Maya Deren
  • 1996
    Through Wounded Eyes

    Through Wounded Eyes

    Through Wounded Eyes

    01996HD

    "This film is a collaboration between Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. It is a hand-painted film incorporating treated film images of trees in Fall...

    Through Wounded Eyes
  • 1996
    The Fur of Home

    The Fur of Home

    The Fur of Home

    01996HD

    A hand-painted double-frame printed film which begins with textures reminiscent of a gray shag rug that is fretted by green and golden...

    The Fur of Home
  • 1965
    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

    51965HD

    BLUE WHITE, "an intonation of child birth"; BLOOD'S TONE, "a golden nursing film"; VEIN, "a film of baby Buddha masturbation."

    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
  • 1995
    The

    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
  • 1974
    Star Garden

    Star Garden

    Star Garden

    5.71974HD

    The "star", as it is singular, is the sun; and it is metaphored, at the beginning of this film, by the projector anyone uses to show forth. Then the...

    Star Garden
  • 1990
    Glaze of Cathexis

    Glaze of Cathexis

    Glaze of Cathexis

    5.31990HD

    This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of...

    Glaze of Cathexis
  • 1952
    Interim

    Interim

    Interim

    61952HD

    A young man meets a young woman under a bridge by a railroad. They shelter from the rain and exchange a kiss. The man grows sullen and leaves. The...

    Interim
  • 1994
    Jonas in the Desert

    Jonas in the Desert

    Jonas in the Desert

    5.51994HD

    Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of...

    Jonas in the Desert
  • 2001
    Lovesong 5 & 6

    Lovesong 5 & 6

    Lovesong 5 & 6

    02001HD

    A hand-painted work beginning with a thicket of curled black lines over flesh tones shaping briefly into sex organs. There is a sense of pulsing...

    Lovesong 5 & 6
  • 1976
    Trio

    Trio

    Trio

    01976HD

    A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle. The second movement is composed of...

    Trio
  • 1956
    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    61956HD

    The young man, played by Stan Brakhage, gets himself into a seriously comic mix-up by indulging in semi-sexual fantasies, and allowing the fantasies...

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward
  • 1996
    Cannibal! The Musical

    Cannibal! The Musical

    Cannibal! The Musical

    6.4261996HD

    Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving and...

    Cannibal! The Musical
  • 1981
    Aftermath

    Aftermath

    Aftermath

    01981HD

    "after + math (((mowing, crop))) a second growth crop" ... this my strongest attack on pop culture, the movies, TV, etc. - what CAN be done with it?...

    Aftermath
  • 2002
    Resurrectus Est

    Resurrectus Est

    Resurrectus Est

    02002HD

    Resurrectus Est is a hand painted film which suggests, from the first, a spread of fragments of plants and flowers, individual petals and bits of...

    Resurrectus Est
  • 1970
    The Animals of Eden and After

    The Animals of Eden and After

    The Animals of Eden and After

    101970HD

    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...

    The Animals of Eden and After