Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 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
  • 1963
    Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News

    Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News

    Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News

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    Three TV "concretes."

    Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News
  • 1995
    Earthen Aerie

    Earthen Aerie

    Earthen Aerie

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    This hand-painted, step-printed film begins with several seconds of blank white (interrupted by red and brief electric yellow) and then proceeds to...

    Earthen Aerie
  • 1986
    Night Music

    Night Music

    Night Music

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    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...

    Night Music
  • 1961
    Sartre's Nausea

    Sartre's Nausea

    Sartre's Nausea

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    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...

    Sartre's Nausea
  • 1991
    Crack Glass Eulogy

    Crack Glass Eulogy

    Crack Glass Eulogy

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    A nostalgic envisionment of city living - the potential shards of memory seen as if always on the verge of cutting the mind to pieces.

    Crack Glass Eulogy
  • 1961
    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

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    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...

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
  • 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
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)

    Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)

    Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)

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    Begins with raccoon in a rose light, ends with fading face of child.

    Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
  • 2002
    Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting

    Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting

    Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting

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    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...

    Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)

    Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)

    Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)

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    Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city.

    Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
  • 1970
    Cornell's Portrait of June

    Cornell's Portrait of June

    Cornell's Portrait of June

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    An alternate title for Centuries of June

    Cornell's Portrait of June
  • 2006
    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

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    A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

    Notes on Marie Menken
  • 1974
    “He was born, he suffered, he died.”

    “He was born, he suffered, he died.”

    “He was born, he suffered, he died.”

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    "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...

    “He was born, he suffered, he died.”
  • 1970
    Sexual Meditation #1: Motel

    Sexual Meditation #1: Motel

    Sexual Meditation #1: Motel

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    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...

    Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
  • 1999
    The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels

    The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels

    The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels

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    This film is a hand-painted combination of shapes which suggest, as appropriately colored, jungle, open veldt, horizontals of grasses, shag-shape...

    The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels
  • 1996
    Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse

    Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse

    Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse

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    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...

    Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse
  • 1991
    Christ Mass Sex Dance

    Christ Mass Sex Dance

    Christ Mass Sex Dance

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    This work, composed of six rolls of superimposed images set to Tenney’s electronic music track ‘Blue Suede’, is a celebration of...

    Christ Mass Sex Dance
  • 2003
    Keeping an Eye on Stan

    Keeping an Eye on Stan

    Keeping an Eye on Stan

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    The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

    Keeping an Eye on Stan
  • 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