Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1973
    Gift

    Gift

    Gift

    01973HD

    A “found object of paint and mold” given to Brakhage by the poet David Meltzer. According to Jane Brakhage, Stan did nothing to it but...

    Gift
  • 1997
    Divertimento

    Divertimento

    Divertimento

    01997HD

    This, painted in the hospital while recovering from cancer surgery in 1996, is - it seems to me - very related to De Kooning's Alzheimer's paintings....

    Divertimento
  • 1981
    Arabic Numeral Series 7

    Arabic Numeral Series 7

    Arabic Numeral Series 7

    6.51981HD

    “With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set...

    Arabic Numeral Series 7
  • 1994
    Elementary Phrases

    Elementary Phrases

    Elementary Phrases

    5.71994HD

    Colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two began with strips of film Brakhage had painted on by hand, photographing them frame by...

    Elementary Phrases
  • 1990
    Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence

    Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence

    Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence

    5.11990HD

    Photographing near Taos, New Mexico, where D.H. Lawrence lived, and in the room in which his ashes may be entombed, Brakhage also cites a statement...

    Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence
  • 2006
    Brakhage Crosses Central Park

    Brakhage Crosses Central Park

    Brakhage Crosses Central Park

    42006HD

    Clip from Walden.

    Brakhage Crosses Central Park
  • 1979
    Roman Numeral: III

    Roman Numeral: III

    Roman Numeral: III

    01979HD

    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...

    Roman Numeral: III
  • 1999
    Persian Series #4

    Persian Series #4

    Persian Series #4

    5.61999HD

    Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...

    Persian Series #4
  • 2001
    Persian Series #17

    Persian Series #17

    Persian Series #17

    62001HD

    Persian Series #17 is a series of quite distinct globules of paint brilliantly colored and shifting as if vertically in the plane (as different from...

    Persian Series #17
  • 1996
    Shockingly Hot

    Shockingly Hot

    Shockingly Hot

    01996HD

    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
  • 1999
    Coupling

    Coupling

    Coupling

    71999HD

    A hand-painted work prepared by my imagination of the sex act affecting internal organs of the human bodies.

    Coupling
  • 1984
    Tortured Dust Part 2

    Tortured Dust Part 2

    Tortured Dust Part 2

    01984HD

    While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh,...

    Tortured Dust Part 2
  • 2000
    Persian Series #11

    Persian Series #11

    Persian Series #11

    5.62000HD

    Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space...

    Persian Series #11
  • 1999
    Cloud Chamber

    Cloud Chamber

    Cloud Chamber

    01999HD

    This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...

    Cloud Chamber
  • 1981
    Arabic Numeral Series 11

    Arabic Numeral Series 11

    Arabic Numeral Series 11

    101981HD

    “With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set...

    Arabic Numeral Series 11
  • 1996
    Prelude 13

    Prelude 13

    Prelude 13

    5.71996HD

    Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until...

    Prelude 13
  • 1974
    Hymn to Her

    Hymn to Her

    Hymn to Her

    01974HD

    "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...

    Hymn to Her
  • 1993
    The Harrowing

    The Harrowing

    The Harrowing

    5.21993HD

    A hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to create varieties of tempo in mimic of sparking and molten rock.

    The Harrowing
  • 1971
    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    3.91971HD

    Directly in the tradition of SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: Motel, this "sequel" does explore further possibilities of nudes in a room. - Canyon Cinema

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View
  • 1961
    Ballad of the Colorado Ute

    Ballad of the Colorado Ute

    Ballad of the Colorado Ute

    41961HD

    Featuring stylized visual storytelling, this rarely seen film by famed experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage was produced for the Colorado Department...

    Ballad of the Colorado Ute