Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1953
    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

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    An anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There's a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls. On a remote road,...

    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
  • 1962
    Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself

    Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself

    Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself

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    In “Mr. Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life”, Mr. Tompkins learns about biology. In a wild and entertaining dream, his creator, author...

    Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
  • 1970
    Sexual Meditation #1: Motel

    Sexual Meditation #1: Motel

    Sexual Meditation #1: Motel

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    This film was originally photographed in 1970 in regular 8mm. It was, a decade later, blown up to 16mm so that it could join the rest of the Sexual...

    Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
  • 1994
    Black Ice

    Black Ice

    Black Ice

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    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...

    Black Ice
  • 1994
    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

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    This was an unfinished collaboration with Stan Brakhage. This film was actually screened publicly at least a few times, including at Pacific Film...

    Alternating Currents
  • 1972
    The Riddle of Lumen

    The Riddle of Lumen

    The Riddle of Lumen

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    “The Riddle of Lumen” presents an evenly paced sequence of images, which seem to follow an elusive logic. As in “Zorns Lemma”...

    The Riddle of Lumen
  • 2003
    Stan's Window & Work in Progress

    Stan's Window & Work in Progress

    Stan's Window & Work in Progress

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    Stan’s Window: This companion to Marilyn's Window was Brakhage housebound when he made this film. Work in Progress contains some of the last...

    Stan's Window & Work in Progress
  • 2022
    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

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    This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
  • 1973
    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

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    During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
  • 1965
    Song 11

    Song 11

    Song 11

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    SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker...

    Song 11
  • 1996
    Prelude 24

    Prelude 24

    Prelude 24

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    Prelude 24 returns to the tempo of single-frame printing. Its shapes and forms are composed of nearly black torques of ink, flickering with white and...

    Prelude 24
  • 2000
    Looking at Forest of Bliss

    Looking at Forest of Bliss

    Looking at Forest of Bliss

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    Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss. The...

    Looking at Forest of Bliss
  • 1988
    Faust's Other: An Idyll

    Faust's Other: An Idyll

    Faust's Other: An Idyll

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    “Faust Part 2” reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from the Greek idein, "to see"); also, a journey of the id. A...

    Faust's Other: An Idyll
  • 1978
    Burial Path

    Burial Path

    Burial Path

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    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
  • 2000
    Persian Series #7

    Persian Series #7

    Persian Series #7

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    Very pale, thin, hieroglyphic pinks, greens and blues in a white space which is thickened over by ribbed mashes of these colors which "dissolve" into...

    Persian Series #7
  • 1959
    Wedlock House: An Intercourse

    Wedlock House: An Intercourse

    Wedlock House: An Intercourse

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    We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at...

    Wedlock House: An Intercourse
  • 1991
    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

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    This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He...

    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
  • 2003
    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

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    Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
  • 1963
    Dog Star Man: Part I

    Dog Star Man: Part I

    Dog Star Man: Part I

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    From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow. He carries an...

    Dog Star Man: Part I
  • 1989
    Watunna

    Watunna

    Watunna

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    The creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Orinoco region of Venezuela provide a transparent look at the poetic process by which human beings...

    Watunna