Stan Brakhage Movies
- 1999
Persian Series #3
Persian Series #35.51999HD
Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both...
- 1999
Persian Series #2
Persian Series #25.71999HD
Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching...
- 1974
The Stars Are Beautiful
The Stars Are Beautiful51974HD
We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips...
- 1955
Centuries of June
Centuries of June3.91955HD
Centuries of June, perhaps more than any Cornell film, is a naked attempt to capture the soul of a place and the mood of a disappearing moment.
- 1972
The Process
The Process4.61972HD
This film by Stan Brakhage investigates the process of memory and thought by melting a series of images and a field of color. The positive-negative...
- 1978
Burial Path
Burial Path51978HD
The film begins with the image of a dead bird. The mind moves to forget, as well as to remember: this film graphs the process of forgetfulness...
- 1961
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular5.11961HD
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...
- 1959
Sirius Remembered
Sirius Remembered3.91959HD
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...
- 1970
The Machine of Eden
The Machine of Eden5.41970HD
"'Mis-takes' give birth to 'shape' (which, in this work, is 'matter,' subject and otherwise) amidst a weave of thought: ... the 'dream' of Eden will...
- 1962
Blue Moses
Blue Moses4.91962HD
One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against...
- 1965
Two: Creeley/McClure
Two: Creeley/McClure4.91965HD
Two portraits in relation to each other, the first of Robert Creeley, the second of Michael McClure. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
- 1980
Murder Psalm
Murder Psalm6.11980HD
Inspired in part by a dream he had of murdering his mother, Brakhage here gives us one of his profoundest meditations on human aggression.
- 1976
Desert
Desert5.11976HD
Says Fred Camper of the film: "Invited to Riverside, California, Brakhage, under the mistaken impression that it was a desert, was planning a desert...
- 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...
- 1955
Reflections on Black
Reflections on Black51955HD
A series of terrifying dramas of male-female relationships offset against the background of a New York tenement. Preserved by the Academy Film...
- 1967
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One4.61967HD
A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child - a shattering of the "myths of childhood" through...
- 2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
In the Mirror of Maya Deren7.42002HD
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
- 1981
Unconscious London Strata
Unconscious London Strata5.11981HD
This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.
- 1989
Visions in Meditation #1
Visions in Meditation #14.71989HD
This is a film inspired by Gertrude Stein's "Stanzas In Meditation", in which the filmmaker has edited a meditative series of images of landscapes...
- 1998
"..." Reel 5
"..." Reel 55.31998HD
Reel #5 of (...) is composed of scratch-imagery edited to music by James Tenney. The music starts accompanied only by black leader: then there is a...