Stan Brakhage Movies

SELF SONG documents a body besieged by cancer. The amber glow of flesh suggests both victory and submission to death. Blackness surrounds the image...

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

I shot this roll of film at a party Bard College threw when it awarded Stan Brakhage an honorary degree. A few days after he died, I dug it out and...

Someone said to me, of this film, that it was really about light; but Jane (who takes it as a portrait – i. e., sees herself in it) said: You...

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

A film photographed in Amsterdam but dedicated to capturing a quality of mind engendered there - not, certainly, alienation (as often in travel) but...

"On July 4, 1976 I and my camera toured the state of Colorado with governor Richard D. Lamm, as he traveled in parades with his children, appeared at...

"HER" to me is always Jane, in the first place, but also Hera: "goddess of women and marriage," naturally enough. Then, too, as it is a hymn of...

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

It was while studying this film that I decided to group these ‘romans’ under the title Roman Numeral Series and to give up the term...

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their...

Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association to celebrate the city’s 200th anniversary, PITTSBURGH was created by a team of...

A hand-painted double-frame printed film which begins with textures reminiscent of a gray shag rug that is fretted by green and golden...

1: SUN 2: not cap: GOLD - used in alchemy 3: the sun-god of the ancient Romans; but then also, as I understand it, a French word for earth, wherefrom...

Here are a couple films from the mid-'60s, given to Gordon Rosenblum at the time, which surfaced this year needing preservation. I don't know what to...

Inspired by a bad fall on a patch of black ice (that ultimately resulted in Brakhage's need for eye surgery), the filmmaker gives us something of a...

Hungarian home movies are examined by the likes of James Ellroy and Stan Brakhage for evidence of family problems.

As a poem might be said to contain the night through a weave of words, so have I in this film attempted such a container with warp and woof of...

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

This is the realization of a 30 year old dream, a wish of the young filmmaker to film a modern Faust which finally came to a fulfillment as...