Stan Brakhage Movies
- 1963
Dog Star Man: Part I
Dog Star Man: Part I6.21963HD
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...
- 2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
In the Mirror of Maya Deren7.42002HD
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
- 1965
Dog Star Man
Dog Star Man6.61965HD
Experimental film following a cycle of seasons as well as the stretch of a single day as a man and his dog slowly ascend a mountain.
- 1964
Dog Star Man: Part III
Dog Star Man: Part III6.21964HD
Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, a man and a woman's, close up, nude - patches of...
- 1963
Dog Star Man: Part II
Dog Star Man: Part II6.51963HD
A man, accompanied by a dog, struggles through snow on a mountain side. We see film stock blister; drawn square shapes appear. Then, we see an...
- 2003
Chinese Series
Chinese Series5.12003HD
Stan Brakhage's final film, made shortly before his death by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail to scratch marks into the...
- 1990
Glaze of Cathexis
Glaze of Cathexis5.31990HD
This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of...
- 1954
Desistfilm
Desistfilm5.51954HD
Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door...
- 1972
The Wold-Shadow
The Wold-Shadow5.31972HD
A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in the...
- 1988
I... Dreaming
I... Dreaming5.81988HD
Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally...
- 1960
The Dead
The Dead4.71960HD
"The Dead became my first work in which things that might very easily be taken as symbols were so photographed as to destroy all their symbolic...
- 1991
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse5.21991HD
Four superimposed rolls of hand-painted and bi-packed television negative imagery are edited so as to approximate the hypnagogic process whereby the...
- 2011
Drawings by Billy and His Friends
Drawings by Billy and His Friends02011HD
In this experimental short film, Kristian Day collected artwork created by the public. He found the majority of the pieces at "Sharpie marker...
- 1955
Centuries of June
Centuries of June3.91955HD
Centuries of June, perhaps more than any Cornell film, is a naked attempt to capture the soul of a place and the mood of a disappearing moment.
- 1993
Study in Color and Black and White
Study in Color and Black and White4.7861993HD
A hand-painted and photographically step-printed film, which exhibits variably shaped small areas of color (in a dark field) that explode into full...
- 1987
Kindering
Kindering5.11987HD
Refracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl. There's a dog, a swing, a...
- 1999
Persian Series #1
Persian Series #15.21999HD
This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...
- 1976
Desert
Desert5.11976HD
Says Fred Camper of the film: "Invited to Riverside, California, Brakhage, under the mistaken impression that it was a desert, was planning a desert...
- 1959
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
Wedlock House: An Intercourse5.61959HD
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...
- 2001
Lovesong
Lovesong5.3232001HD
This lush, sensuous film is based on paintings of unusual variety and intricacy. Brakhage's desire to include all the complexities of living in his...