Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1999
    Persian Series #3

    Persian Series #3

    Persian Series #3

    5.51999HD

    Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both...

    Persian Series #3
  • 1999
    Persian Series #2

    Persian Series #2

    Persian Series #2

    5.71999HD

    Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching...

    Persian Series #2
  • 1974
    The Stars Are Beautiful

    The Stars Are Beautiful

    The Stars Are Beautiful

    51974HD

    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...

    The Stars Are Beautiful
  • 1955
    Centuries of June

    Centuries of June

    Centuries of June

    3.91955HD

    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.

    Centuries of June
  • 1972
    The Process

    The Process

    The Process

    4.61972HD

    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...

    The Process
  • 1978
    Burial Path

    Burial Path

    Burial Path

    51978HD

    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...

    Burial Path
  • 1961
    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

    5.11961HD

    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...

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
  • 1959
    Sirius Remembered

    Sirius Remembered

    Sirius Remembered

    3.91959HD

    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...

    Sirius Remembered
  • 1970
    The Machine of Eden

    The Machine of Eden

    The Machine of Eden

    5.41970HD

    "'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...

    The Machine of Eden
  • 1962
    Blue Moses

    Blue Moses

    Blue Moses

    4.91962HD

    One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against...

    Blue Moses
  • 1965
    Two: Creeley/McClure

    Two: Creeley/McClure

    Two: Creeley/McClure

    4.91965HD

    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.

    Two: Creeley/McClure
  • 1980
    Murder Psalm

    Murder Psalm

    Murder Psalm

    6.11980HD

    Inspired in part by a dream he had of murdering his mother, Brakhage here gives us one of his profoundest meditations on human aggression.

    Murder Psalm
  • 1976
    Desert

    Desert

    Desert

    5.11976HD

    Says Fred Camper of the film: "Invited to Riverside, California, Brakhage, under the mistaken impression that it was a desert, was planning a desert...

    Desert
  • 1974
    Star Garden

    Star Garden

    Star Garden

    5.71974HD

    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...

    Star Garden
  • 1955
    Reflections on Black

    Reflections on Black

    Reflections on Black

    51955HD

    A series of terrifying dramas of male-female relationships offset against the background of a New York tenement. Preserved by the Academy Film...

    Reflections on Black
  • 1967
    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One

    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One

    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One

    4.61967HD

    A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child - a shattering of the "myths of childhood" through...

    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One
  • 2002
    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    7.42002HD

    Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren
  • 1981
    Unconscious London Strata

    Unconscious London Strata

    Unconscious London Strata

    5.11981HD

    This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.

    Unconscious London Strata
  • 1989
    Visions in Meditation #1

    Visions in Meditation #1

    Visions in Meditation #1

    4.71989HD

    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...

    Visions in Meditation #1
  • 1998

    "..." Reel 5

    "..." Reel 5

    5.31998HD

    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...

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