Stan Brakhage Movies
- 1980
Roman Numeral: VII
Roman Numeral: VII01980HD
What can one say? – that won’t limit by language the complexity of moving visual thinking?… the skein of pattern that seeks to...
- 1995
Paranoia Corridor
Paranoia Corridor01995HD
This film is an elaborately hand-painted step-printed work composed primarily of luminescent greens and blues in constantly shifting symmetrical...
- 2006
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
Brakhage Crosses Central Park42006HD
Clip from Walden.
- 2002
Song of the Mushroom
Song of the Mushroom02002HD
Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. With interest in...
- 1986
Invocation: Maya Deren
Invocation: Maya Deren51986HD
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...
- 1996
Through Wounded Eyes
Through Wounded Eyes01996HD
"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...
- 1996
The Fur of Home
The Fur of Home01996HD
A hand-painted double-frame printed film which begins with textures reminiscent of a gray shag rug that is fretted by green and golden...
- 1965
Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein51965HD
BLUE WHITE, "an intonation of child birth"; BLOOD'S TONE, "a golden nursing film"; VEIN, "a film of baby Buddha masturbation."
- 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,...
- 1974
Star Garden
Star Garden5.71974HD
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...
- 1990
Glaze of Cathexis
Glaze of Cathexis5.31990HD
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...
- 1952
Interim
Interim61952HD
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...
- 1994
Jonas in the Desert
Jonas in the Desert5.51994HD
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...
- 2001
Lovesong 5 & 6
Lovesong 5 & 602001HD
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...
- 1976
Trio
Trio01976HD
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...
- 1956
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
The One Romantic Venture of Edward61956HD
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...
- 1996
Cannibal! The Musical
Cannibal! The Musical6.4261996HD
Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving and...
- 1981
Aftermath
Aftermath01981HD
"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?...
- 2002
Resurrectus Est
Resurrectus Est02002HD
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...
- 1970
The Animals of Eden and After
The Animals of Eden and After101970HD
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...