Stan Brakhage Movies

Arabic Numeral Series

Series of narrative events, stories if you like, but so clustered visually as to have a center so to speak, slightly off center.

Hand painted short with snippets of found footage interspersed.

Brakhage film from 2000, distributed by CFDC

Begins with raccoon in a rose light, ends with fading face of child.

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

Begins with green tiled bathroom ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman. Has been accidentally referred to as "Jane's Memory" in some writing.

Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city.

Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. With interest in...

A very personal lecture on filmmaker and friend Jim Davis.

Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and...

This film was originally photographed in 1970 in regular 8mm. It was, a decade later, blown up to 16mm so that it could join the rest of the Sexual...

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. —SB "Two portrait sketches and two nondescript."

Mid-period Brakahge short. "Haiku cartoons."

It was while studying this film that I decided to group these ‘romans’ under the title Roman Numeral Series and to give up the term...

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

Phos equals light, but then I did also want that word within the title which would designate place, as within the nationalities of "the fabulous" - a...