Stan Brakhage Filmes

  • 2001
    Dark Night of The Soul

    Dark Night of The Soul

    Dark Night of The Soul

    02001HD

    This hand-painted work presents the semblance of a dark brown wall, ripped open and pocked with yellowed visions of rooms and other interiors,...

    Dark Night of The Soul
  • 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
  • 1980
    Sincerity V

    Sincerity V

    Sincerity V

    4.71980HD

    This, then, finishes eleven years of editing drawing on 30-some years of photography. I will surely work autobiographically again, but the modes of...

    Sincerity V
  • 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
  • 1964
    Song 6

    Song 6

    Song 6

    4.21964HD

    SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage...

    Song 6
  • 1980
    Duplicity III

    Duplicity III

    Duplicity III

    5.21980HD

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

    Duplicity III
  • 1958
    Anticipation of the Night

    Anticipation of the Night

    Anticipation of the Night

    6.41958HD

    First person view of a man, seen only in shadow, attempting to connect with the world around him. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

    Anticipation of the Night
  • 1994
    Chartres Series

    Chartres Series

    Chartres Series

    4.71994HD

    A year and a half ago the filmmaker Nick Dorsky, hearing I was going to France, insisted I must see the Chartres Cathedral. I, who had studied...

    Chartres Series
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

    Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

    01975HD

    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)
  • 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
  • 2002
    Song of the Mushroom

    Song of the Mushroom

    Song of the Mushroom

    02002HD

    Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. With interest in...

    Song of the Mushroom
  • 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
  • 2001
    Occam's Thread

    Occam's Thread

    Occam's Thread

    02001HD

    This is a hand painted, step printed work which views Occam's economical vision of life (The Razor's Edge') as something more thread-like: a...

    Occam's Thread
  • 1982
    Arabic Numeral Series 18

    Arabic Numeral Series 18

    Arabic Numeral Series 18

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    “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 18
  • 1981
    Arabic Numeral Series 4

    Arabic Numeral Series 4

    Arabic Numeral Series 4

    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 4
  • 1999
    The Birds Of Paradise

    The Birds Of Paradise

    The Birds Of Paradise

    01999HD

    This is a hand-painted work which involves a variety of colors applied within gouged and scratched shapes which approximate both swift shifts of...

    The Birds Of Paradise
  • 1995
    The 'b' Series

    The 'b' Series

    The 'b' Series

    01995HD

    This film is a series of five little hand-painted and elaborately step-printed sections which are individually titled but so inter-related I've...

    The 'b' Series
  • 2001
    Persian Series #13

    Persian Series #13

    Persian Series #13

    5.62001HD

    Persian Series #13 is a series of extremely dark images, mostly in purples, greens, and fiery red-orange-yellows, shifting one to another in displays...

    Persian Series #13
  • 1969
    American 30s Song

    American 30s Song

    American 30s Song

    4.51969HD

    “Begins with a portrait of the filmmaker’s father, moves through imagery of various forms of transportation (cars, boats, trains, and...

    American 30s Song
  • 1966
    Song 20

    Song 20

    Song 20

    81966HD

    SONGS 19 & 20: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage...

    Song 20