Stan Brakhage Filmes

Three TV "concretes."

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

This hand-painted, elaborately step-printed film begins with what appears to be torn fragments of thick parchment erupting upward, out of which...

The last of Brakhage's longer works. Part of the "Vancouver Island" films. "Purple flashes are followed by a curtain of purple and blues, first...

Ascension begins by superimposing paintings that look like clouds over extremely close views of mottled paint, peculiarly intimate in their...

For Stan is a tribute film shot by Marilyn Brakhage of her husband at work with his camera in the late 1980s and early 90s – illuminating their...

This is the twelfth film in the twenty-part Arabics series. Brakhage creates blurry visual fields that are profoundly without ground, worlds of...

This is an architectural garden of the variably brash rock-solid liquid-encompassing, but always imitative, human mind as it processes the given...

SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan...

“Films made by the five Brakhage children; Brakhage arranged them in this form but did not edit them.” –Robert Haller

This is a hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity-of-motion, and makes...

Persian Series #16 is an even more exaggerated contrast of color and black-and-white patterning.

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

SONG 1: Portrait of a lady (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964...

One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against...

Begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with a candle wick burning, circled by boiling gold flecks.

A natural companion piece to Lovesong 3, this (also hand-painted) work counterbalances the rhythmic irregularities and, one might say, temporal...

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

“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...

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,...