Stan Brakhage Filmes

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."

Part 2 of Trilogy. Dedicated to Phil Solomon. The "Truths" of this film, which the title prompts, are slightly recognizable patterns of fish and...

This is the most formal of all these works. - S.B.

What shall one say? – S.B.

An imagery sharp as stars and hard as the thought-universe (turning back upon itself) absorbed in gentle patterns of contemplation. – 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...

The third in this series of Imagnostic Films seems particularly magic to me in as much as I cannot even remember the photographic source of these...

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...

This is a hand-painted work which involves a variety of colors applied within gouged and scratched shapes which approximate both swift shifts of...

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

Three TV "concretes."

"I had a camera with which I could make multiple superimpositions spontaneously. It had been lent to me for a week. I was also given a couple of...

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

'EN'? -- as dictionary has it: 'made of, of or belonging to' (as I have it) Aquarius/an(d) so forth: Latin water carrier in the sky, etc. This is my...

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...

Shots of city and country life come together to form an impressionistic whole. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

A bold attempt, full of visual sensibility, to use living animals, innocuous of their roles, as abstract counters in a tone poem of color and...