Stan Brakhage Movies
- 1956
Trumpit
Trumpit4.41956HD
Featuring a card game played on the body of a naked woman, Lawrence Jordan portrays male sexual frustration while slyly satirizing Hollywood reaction...
- 1963
Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News
Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News01963HD
Three TV "concretes."
- 1995
Earthen Aerie
Earthen Aerie4.51995HD
This hand-painted, step-printed film begins with several seconds of blank white (interrupted by red and brief electric yellow) and then proceeds to...
- 1986
Night Music
Night Music5.41986HD
Part of Three Hand-Painted Films, Night Music (originally painted on IMAX) attempts to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when closed...
- 1961
Sartre's Nausea
Sartre's Nausea01961HD
This film has never been in distribution, and it’s arguably not a true Brakhage film, as it was made as a commission for a 1961 public...
- 1991
Crack Glass Eulogy
Crack Glass Eulogy5.51991HD
A nostalgic envisionment of city living - the potential shards of memory seen as if always on the verge of cutting the mind to pieces.
- 1961
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular5.21961HD
Only at a crisis do I see both the scene as I've been trained to see it ( that is, with Renaissance perspective, three-dimensional logic–colors...
- 1996
Shockingly Hot
Shockingly Hot01996HD
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...
- 1975
Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)01975HD
Begins with raccoon in a rose light, ends with fading face of child.
- 2002
Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting
Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting02002HD
This afternoon summer scene is very much how he worked (when painting directly on film) in the last several years – at various cafes and sports...
- 1975
Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)01975HD
Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city.
- 1970
Cornell's Portrait of June
Cornell's Portrait of June01970HD
An alternate title for Centuries of June
- 2006
Notes on Marie Menken
Notes on Marie Menken5.42006HD
A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
- 1974
“He was born, he suffered, he died.”
“He was born, he suffered, he died.”101974HD
"The quote is Joseph Conrad answering a critic who found his books too long. Conrad replied that he could write a novel on the inside of a match-book...
- 1970
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel01970HD
This film was originally photographed in 1970 in regular 8mm. It was, a decade later, blown up to 16mm so that it could join the rest of the Sexual...
- 1999
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels01999HD
This film is a hand-painted combination of shapes which suggest, as appropriately colored, jungle, open veldt, horizontals of grasses, shag-shape...
- 1996
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse01996HD
A thin oval of green-tinged light in thick darkness persists, then gradually descends below the bottom of the frame and, after a pause, rises again...
- 1991
Christ Mass Sex Dance
Christ Mass Sex Dance01991HD
This work, composed of six rolls of superimposed images set to Tenney’s electronic music track ‘Blue Suede’, is a celebration of...
- 2003
Keeping an Eye on Stan
Keeping an Eye on Stan02003HD
The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...
- 1986
Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander
Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander01986HD
At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain,...