Stan Brakhage Movies

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

SONG 8: Sea Creatures. The Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1963 to...

This film is a mix of landscape images seen from train windows and the patterned shapes and shifting tones of moving-visual-thought thus prompted; it...

SONG 16: A flowering of sex as in the mind’s eye, a joy (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker...

The third in this series of Imagnostic Films seems particularly magic to me in as much as I cannot even remember the photographic source of these...

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

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...

By painting and scratching directly on celluloid strips and then duplicating each image for two or more frames, Brakhage produced a flickering cycle...

A tribute to Stan Brakhage's pet dog Sirius, whose decompostion was recorded over 6 months after he had died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

This, then, finishes eleven years of editing drawing on 30-some years of photography. I will surely work autobiographically again, but the modes of...

SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker...

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

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

This is an architectural garden of the variably brash rock-solid liquid-encompassing, but always imitative, human mind as it processes the given...

A multiple-superimposition hand-painted visual symphony of animal life of earth. THE LOOM might be compared to musical quartet-form (as there are...

This is a photographed filmic searching-for-whales, the camerawork and editing attempting to approximate something of the rubbing up against water of...

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

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...

This continuation of my autobiography is composed of film photographed by many people: Bruce Baillie, Jane Brakhage, Larry Jordan and Stan Phillips,...

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