Stan Brakhage Movies

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...

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...

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

Wedding gift from Maya Deren to Geoffrey Holder; Stan Brakhage and Larry Jordan made film of wedding at Maya Deren’s invitation, told to be...

A very personal lecture on filmmaker and friend Jim Davis.

"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...

A nostalgic envisionment of city living - the potential shards of memory seen as if always on the verge of cutting the mind to pieces.

"I've printed each single frame 12 times or 8 times [...] This permits people to study a it little more [...] There's a horseman, a woman and a moth...

A tribute to Stan Brakhage's pet dog Sirius, whose decompostion was recorded over 6 months after he had died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

As a poem might be said to contain the night through a weave of words, so have I in this film attempted such a container with warp and woof of...

A poignant portrait of Stan and Jane Brakhage visiting Juarez.

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage...

This is a photographed filmic searching-for-whales, the camerawork and editing attempting to approximate something of the rubbing up against water of...

Resurrectus Est is a hand painted film which suggests, from the first, a spread of fragments of plants and flowers, individual petals and bits of...

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...

Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their "weave" with each other which...

This is a hand-painted step-printed film which begins with slow dissolves of what appear to be decaying leaves, crumpled browns and golds and oranges...

Ken, Flo and Nisi Jacobs in the Syracuse Airport: this is what you might call baby-sitting in the swamp.

SONG 14: Molds, paints and crystals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced...