Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1963
    Dog Star Man: Part I

    Dog Star Man: Part I

    Dog Star Man: Part I

    6.21963HD

    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...

    Dog Star Man: Part I
  • 2002
    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    7.42002HD

    Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren
  • 1965
    Dog Star Man

    Dog Star Man

    Dog Star Man

    6.61965HD

    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.

    Dog Star Man
  • 1964
    Dog Star Man: Part III

    Dog Star Man: Part III

    Dog Star Man: Part III

    6.21964HD

    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...

    Dog Star Man: Part III
  • 1963
    Dog Star Man: Part II

    Dog Star Man: Part II

    Dog Star Man: Part II

    6.51963HD

    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...

    Dog Star Man: Part II
  • 2003
    Chinese Series

    Chinese Series

    Chinese Series

    5.12003HD

    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...

    Chinese Series
  • 1990
    Glaze of Cathexis

    Glaze of Cathexis

    Glaze of Cathexis

    5.31990HD

    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...

    Glaze of Cathexis
  • 1954
    Desistfilm

    Desistfilm

    Desistfilm

    5.51954HD

    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...

    Desistfilm
  • 1972
    The Wold-Shadow

    The Wold-Shadow

    The Wold-Shadow

    5.31972HD

    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...

    The Wold-Shadow
  • 1988
    I... Dreaming

    I... Dreaming

    I... Dreaming

    5.81988HD

    Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally...

    I... Dreaming
  • 1960
    The Dead

    The Dead

    The Dead

    4.71960HD

    "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...

    The Dead
  • 1991
    Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse

    Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse

    Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse

    5.21991HD

    Four superimposed rolls of hand-painted and bi-packed television negative imagery are edited so as to approximate the hypnagogic process whereby the...

    Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
  • 2011
    Drawings by Billy and His Friends

    Drawings by Billy and His Friends

    Drawings by Billy and His Friends

    02011HD

    In this experimental short film, Kristian Day collected artwork created by the public. He found the majority of the pieces at "Sharpie marker...

    Drawings by Billy and His Friends
  • 1955
    Centuries of June

    Centuries of June

    Centuries of June

    3.91955HD

    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.

    Centuries of June
  • 1993
    Study in Color and Black and White

    Study in Color and Black and White

    Study in Color and Black and White

    4.7861993HD

    A hand-painted and photographically step-printed film, which exhibits variably shaped small areas of color (in a dark field) that explode into full...

    Study in Color and Black and White
  • 1987
    Kindering

    Kindering

    Kindering

    5.11987HD

    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...

    Kindering
  • 1999
    Persian Series #1

    Persian Series #1

    Persian Series #1

    5.21999HD

    This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...

    Persian Series #1
  • 1976
    Desert

    Desert

    Desert

    5.11976HD

    Says Fred Camper of the film: "Invited to Riverside, California, Brakhage, under the mistaken impression that it was a desert, was planning a desert...

    Desert
  • 1959
    Wedlock House: An Intercourse

    Wedlock House: An Intercourse

    Wedlock House: An Intercourse

    5.61959HD

    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...

    Wedlock House: An Intercourse
  • 2001
    Lovesong

    Lovesong

    Lovesong

    5.3232001HD

    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...

    Lovesong