Stan Brakhage Movies

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

“[Passage Through] required the most exacting editing process ever; and in the course of that work it occurred to me that I’d originally...

This film of single-strand photography begins with the "fire" of reflective light on water and on the barest inferences of a ship. Throughout, the...

"This is a portrait of that man I choose to call the greatest I've known: Clancy, whom the fates surnamed Sheey, personifies for me that which is...

Second Part of Song 27 (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to...

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

This, the first completed reel of work-in-progress, draws on autobiographical energies and images which reflect the first 20 years of my living. I...

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

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...

"With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against...

Prelude 19 begins with hand-painted swatches of variable colors encompassed eventually by vertical strokes of reds and blues, followed by sudden...

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set...

While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh,...

Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms...

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

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set...

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

In a voiceover Stan Brakhage articulates his resentments about the use of computers for art production and in general. This comment is contrasted by...

"This film rises out of my struggle to photograph the ephemeral qualities of varied air (as many Greek philosophers experienced such) and to arrange...

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