Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1995
    As Is Was

    As Is Was

    As Is Was

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    This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was...

    As Is Was
  • 1984
    Tortured Dust Part 1

    Tortured Dust Part 1

    Tortured Dust Part 1

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    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 1
  • 1965
    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

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    BLUE WHITE, "an intonation of child birth"; BLOOD'S TONE, "a golden nursing film"; VEIN, "a film of baby Buddha masturbation."

    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
  • 1997
    Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis

    Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis

    Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis

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    A very personal lecture on filmmaker and friend Jim Davis.

    Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis
  • 1985
    Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

    Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

    Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

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    Stan Brakhage is a film maker whose work is shown mainly at film festivals. His work has been likened to poetry. Brakhage explains his techniques and...

    Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
  • 1978
    Sincerity III

    Sincerity III

    Sincerity III

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

    Sincerity III
  • 1976
    The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower

    The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower

    The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower

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    The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. (S.B.) "Has aspects of the diary film...The Dream is one of the most...

    The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower
  • 1976
    Absence

    Absence

    Absence

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    "This film is about 'nothing.' Hints of dramatic 'loss' are imaged throughout, but the primary effect of the film is to give, through fleeting and...

    Absence
  • 1964
    Song 7

    Song 7

    Song 7

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    SONG 7: San Francisco (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to...

    Song 7
  • 1997
    Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis

    Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis

    Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis

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    “I tried to imagine what the last hymn to Novalis’s night had been if it was beyond language. (…) is the most elaborate hand...

    Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis
  • 1987
    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

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    This documentary, made seven years after the death of legendary filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye, tells Lye's story: from being a young boy...

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
  • 1965
    Song 13

    Song 13

    Song 13

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    SONG 13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan...

    Song 13
  • 1980
    4A

    4A

    4A

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    A hand-painted Brakhage film made specifically for Anthology Film Archives.

    4A
  • 2001
    Rounds

    Rounds

    Rounds

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    ROUNDS is a hand-painted film composed of a series of film loops printed in such a fashion that, while there is a feeling of repetitive familiarity,...

    Rounds
  • 2002
    Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day

    Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day

    Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day

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    A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002.

    Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

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    Begins with white lamp post, green tree leaves, and window, ends with flashing window light on brown wall of motel room.

    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)
  • 2008
    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

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    In 1958 R. Igor Gamow first met Jane Brakhage. Peter Garrity, in his new documentary film, "Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow" follows their life long...

    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow
  • 1976
    Gadflies

    Gadflies

    Gadflies

    01976HD

    "Gadflies, a record of a reunion of a group of old high school friends, is filmed with an eye toward the rhythms of conversation, of group...

    Gadflies
  • 1997
    Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos

    Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos

    Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos

    01997HD

    Brakhage's lecture at the Whitney Museum is a thoughtful meditation on another friend and fellow filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos.

    Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos
  • 1996
    BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE

    BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE

    BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE

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    Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in...

    BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE