Stan Brakhage Movies

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...

Part of The Dante Quartet. Also extant in a slightly different form as a standalone 1-minute film. "My moving-visual response to William Blake's "The...

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...

In the autobiographical tradition of the earlier Sincerities, this film takes up the light-threads of our living 14 years ago when the Brakhage...

The "Dynamo theories" of Henry Adams portrayed first person/sexual vision: an American businessman as lord of all he surveys.

The second, of these companion films (interspersed by a "Technicolor+ countdown") introduces The Movies (Narrative Dramatic Scenes briefly flickering...

This film is hand-painted and is essentially about the interplay between hypnagogic vision and words, the effect of the one upon the other, the...

Part two of the Caswallon Trilogy, and the only film in the group to also be printed as a stand-alone. Features sound.

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

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

Mid-period Brakahge short. "Haiku cartoons."

What shall one say? – S.B.

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...

This little hand-painted film was over-a-year in the making, and absolutely dependent upon a quality of "broad-stroke" in the painting which I think...

Ascension begins by superimposing paintings that look like clouds over extremely close views of mottled paint, peculiarly intimate in their...

Three TV "concretes."

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

This is then the property of many angels.

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...