Stan Brakhage Movies

Lost film directed by Stan Brakhage

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

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

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

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

This film seems to be lost, possibly left at KQED in San Francisco. Morton Subotnick has feelers out trying to find it, but no luck yet. - Mark...

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

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...

Here are a couple films from the mid-'60s, given to Gordon Rosenblum at the time, which surfaced this year needing preservation. I don't know what to...

The Presence reflects some sight of Insect as Being. The Imagined aura and environment of a beetle creates a 'world' wherein this solitary insect may...

An experimental animated short.

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. (S.B.)

What can one say? – that won’t limit by language the complexity of moving visual thinking?… the skein of pattern that seeks to...

A short film by, arguably, the greatest experimental filmmaker, Stan Brakhage.

Jane and the kids go to town. Directly in the tradition of SCENES FROM UNDER CHILDHOOD, this film may indeed constitute a 3rd chapter to 'The Book of...

In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows...

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

Part of The Dante Quartet

Persian Series #18 is almost calligraphic in its overlays of dark (occasionally colored) glyphs backed by brilliant color motifs.

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