Movies: Stan Brakhage
- 1998
"..." Reel 5 (1998)
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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 sudden flare of pure white which begins to flicker with negative-colored ephemeral shapes, until final...
- 1964
Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)
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A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant is born. We see a lactating nipple. Images include a mountain peak, farm buildings, a tree stump, a fire, a crawling baby, and the sun. The man falls ...
- 1993
Boulder Blues and Pearls and... (1993)
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Peripheral envisionment of daily life as the mind has it - i.e., a terrifying ecstasy of (hand-painted) synapting nerve ends back-firing from thought's grip of life....
- 1972
The Wold-Shadow (1972)
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A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in the shadows? Something green is out of focus. The light flashes, and the screen goes dark from time to ti...
- 1997
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind (1997)
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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 The World Tree as dead, fit only for firewood; and at end of DOG STAR MAN I had chopped it up amidst...
- 2001
Lovesong (2001)
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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 work is evident in this "love song."...
- 1974
The Stars Are Beautiful (1974)
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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 their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity. A dog joins the hens a...
- 2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002)
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Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s....
- 1964
Song 6 (1964)
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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 produced from 1964 to 1969)....
- 1976
Desert (1976)
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Says Fred Camper of the film: "Invited to Riverside, California, Brakhage, under the mistaken impression that it was a desert, was planning a desert movie when he arrived to discover an unattractive suburban landscape. So he decided to make, and shoo...
- 1993
Study in Color and Black and White (1993)
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A hand-painted and photographically step-printed film, which exhibits variably shaped small areas of color (in a dark field) that explode into full frames of textured color interwoven with white scratch patterns that create a sense of interior depth ...
- 1965
Two: Creeley/McClure (1965)
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Two portraits in relation to each other, the first of Robert Creeley, the second of Michael McClure. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007....
- 1999
Keepers of the Frame (1999)
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An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States....
- 1955
Reflections on Black (1955)
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A series of terrifying dramas of male-female relationships offset against the background of a New York tenement. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2012....
- 2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
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Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community....
- 1988
I... Dreaming (1988)
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Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally joined by a chorus, sings phrases of sorrow as we watch a solitary man in shadows in an unadorned house: ...
- 1962
Sartre's Nausea (1962)
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A few major discoveries have been made in the collection, including that of three films that Stan had made for public television in 1962, unseen since their original broadcast. Stan was commissioned to create three short film segments to be incorp...
- 1968
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One (1968)
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A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child - a shattering of the "myths of childhood" through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by the...
- 1977
The Domain of the Moment (1977)
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Four films in contemplation upon those events which are so centered upon one moment that chronology seems almost obliterated or at least unimportant in remembrance....
- 1982
Arabic Numeral Series 19 (1982)
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“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 darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of empti...