Stan Brakhage Filmes

A nostalgic envisionment of city living - the potential shards of memory seen as if always on the verge of cutting the mind to pieces.

We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips...

This film by Stan Brakhage investigates the process of memory and thought by melting a series of images and a field of color. The positive-negative...

SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage...

This film is a mix of landscape images seen from train windows and the patterned shapes and shifting tones of moving-visual-thought thus prompted; it...

A series of terrifying dramas of male-female relationships offset against the background of a New York tenement. Preserved by the Academy Film...

One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against...

"concrescence, principle of As a term from A.N. Whitehead's metaphysics refers to the drive things possess that impel them to actualization, the...

SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to...

SONG 14: Molds, paints and crystals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced...

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

A multiple-superimposition hand-painted visual symphony of animal life of earth. THE LOOM might be compared to musical quartet-form (as there are...

Four films in contemplation upon those events which are so centered upon one moment that chronology seems almost obliterated or at least unimportant...

"'Mis-takes' give birth to 'shape' (which, in this work, is 'matter,' subject and otherwise) amidst a weave of thought: ... the 'dream' of Eden will...

A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child - a shattering of the "myths of childhood" through...

This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.

A film about the naturalness of sexuality. Its four sequences feature heterosexual and homosexual lovemaking, dogs copulating, and naked childen at...

Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until...

An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States.

SONG 8: Sea creatures (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to...