Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 2003
    Encomium

    Encomium

    Encomium

    02003HD

    I shot this roll of film at a party Bard College threw when it awarded Stan Brakhage an honorary degree. A few days after he died, I dug it out and...

    Encomium
  • 1966
    Pasht

    Pasht

    Pasht

    3.91966HD

    In honor of the cat, so named, and the goddess of all cats which she was named after. - CAT Film Festival

    Pasht
  • 2001
    Lovesong 2

    Lovesong 2

    Lovesong 2

    4.42001HD

    LOVESONG 2 is a rapid recapitulation of the tactics of Lovesong, without the multiple rhythms of variable step-printing: it is a straight...

    Lovesong 2
  • 1986
    Night Music

    Night Music

    Night Music

    5.41986HD

    Part of Three Hand-Painted Films, Night Music (originally painted on IMAX) attempts to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when closed...

    Night Music
  • 1967
    23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

    23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

    23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

    5.61967HD

    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...

    23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
  • 1995
    I Take These Truths

    I Take These Truths

    I Take These Truths

    5.51995HD

    This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should...

    I Take These Truths
  • 1996
    Prelude 15

    Prelude 15

    Prelude 15

    4.51996HD

    Doubly-printed striations of "brush-strokes" through multicolored "rock" forms dissolving then to blackened "mud" eliciting increasing sense of being...

    Prelude 15
  • 1996
    Prelude 16

    Prelude 16

    Prelude 16

    4.51996HD

    Singly-printed criss-crosses of molten "brush"-(hard-edge)-strokes of black over pebbled yellow, ending finally on an intermix of all intertwined...

    Prelude 16
  • 1967
    23rd Psalm Branch: Part I

    23rd Psalm Branch: Part I

    23rd Psalm Branch: Part I

    6.21967HD

    In this haunting but lyrical meditation on war, Brakhage intercuts 8-mm footage of Colorado with imagery from WWII newsreels. He responds to the...

    23rd Psalm Branch: Part I
  • 2009
    For Stan

    For Stan

    For Stan

    72009HD

    For Stan is a tribute film shot by Marilyn Brakhage of her husband at work with his camera in the late 1980s and early 90s – illuminating their...

    For Stan
  • 1972
    The Presence

    The Presence

    The Presence

    91972HD

    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...

    The Presence
  • 1964
    Dog Star Man: Part III

    Dog Star Man: Part III

    Dog Star Man: Part III

    6.11964HD

    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
  • 1994
    Naughts

    Naughts

    Naughts

    5.31994HD

    A series of five hand-painted, step-printed films, each of which is a textured, thus tangible, "nothing." A series of "nots," then, in pun, or knots...

    Naughts
  • 1991
    A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea

    A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea

    A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea

    6.41991HD

    "In his description for A CHILD'S GARDEN, Brakhage quotes from poets Ronald Johnson and Charles Olson (and cites Johnson's poem "Beam 29" as...

    A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea
  • 1987
    The Dante Quartet

    The Dante Quartet

    The Dante Quartet

    6.31987HD

    A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a...

    The Dante Quartet
  • 1987
    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

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    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...

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
  • 1981
    The Garden of Earthly Delights

    The Garden of Earthly Delights

    The Garden of Earthly Delights

    6.11981HD

    A collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem,...

    The Garden of Earthly Delights
  • 1994
    From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis

    From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis

    From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis

    5.21994HD

    “This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colors are interwoven with words (in English) from the first Hymn to the...

    From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis
  • 1997
    The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm

    The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm

    The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm

    4.81997HD

    Flares of color break into streams of light, leaves, wood grain and prism-etched vegetation. A moon lifts out of this dark weave to be replaced by...

    The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
  • 1971
    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    4.61971HD

    Directly in the tradition of SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: Motel, this "sequel" does explore further possibilities of nudes in a room. - Canyon Cinema

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View