Stan Brakhage Movies

Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden...

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

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

Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching...

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...

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...

Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray.

Inspired in part by a dream he had of murdering his mother, Brakhage here gives us one of his profoundest meditations on human aggression.

This film celebrates weddings and being wed, and the union of opposites in everything everywhere.

Two short films, the first NOT about purity itself, whatever that might be, but rather an equivalent of the process of searching for purity in the...

Begins with blue negative face of child, ends with single centered eye.

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

Reel #5 of (...) is composed of scratch-imagery edited to music by James Tenney. The music starts accompanied only by black leader: then there is a...

An 18-part series of colorful shorts, made by Stan Brakhage between 1999 and 2001.

First person view of a man, seen only in shadow, attempting to connect with the world around him. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

This film, a combination of hand-painting and photography, is a fulsome exposition of the themes of DOG STAR MAN. In that early epic I had envisioned...

An experimental film by Stan Brakhage. Frenetic editing and hand-painted film accompany scenes of dogs and raccoons, snakes and mice.

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

The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in...

Begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill.