Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)

    Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)

    Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)

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    Begins with green tiled bathroom ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman. Has been accidentally referred to as "Jane's Memory" in some writing.

    Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)
  • 1982
    Arabic Numeral Series 16

    Arabic Numeral Series 16

    Arabic Numeral Series 16

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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...

    Arabic Numeral Series 16
  • 1982
    Arabic Numeral Series 14

    Arabic Numeral Series 14

    Arabic Numeral Series 14

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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...

    Arabic Numeral Series 14
  • 1969
    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

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    Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

    Filmmakers
  • 1993
    Z (Zee Not Zed)

    Z (Zee Not Zed)

    Z (Zee Not Zed)

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    Stan Brakhage with a movie camera. Winter seascapes.

    Z (Zee Not Zed)
  • 1969
    My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers

    My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers

    My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers

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    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...

    My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers
  • 1972
    The Riddle of Lumen

    The Riddle of Lumen

    The Riddle of Lumen

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    “The Riddle of Lumen” presents an evenly paced sequence of images, which seem to follow an elusive logic. As in “Zorns Lemma”...

    The Riddle of Lumen
  • 2003
    Keeping an Eye on Stan

    Keeping an Eye on Stan

    Keeping an Eye on Stan

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    The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

    Keeping an Eye on Stan
  • 1970
    The Animals of Eden and After

    The Animals of Eden and After

    The Animals of Eden and After

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    THE ANIMALS OF EDEN AND AFTER ... is too mysterious, to me, for me to be able to write anything about it except that it seems to be the best film...

    The Animals of Eden and After
  • 1982
    Arabic Numeral Series 18

    Arabic Numeral Series 18

    Arabic Numeral Series 18

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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...

    Arabic Numeral Series 18
  • 1994
    Cannot Exist

    Cannot Exist

    Cannot Exist

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    The hand-painting of this film is interrupted by, and interspersed with, a geometrically structured Mask of Death (one of those frightening human...

    Cannot Exist
  • 2025
    Brakhage on Brakhage

    Brakhage on Brakhage

    Brakhage on Brakhage

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    Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in...

    Brakhage on Brakhage
  • 1979
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    The first film of mine which is so very much there where it's at THAT it deserves visual symbol as title and no further explanation from me at/et?...

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  • 1981
    Arabic Numeral Series 6

    Arabic Numeral Series 6

    Arabic Numeral Series 6

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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...

    Arabic Numeral Series 6
  • 1996
    Sexual Saga

    Sexual Saga

    Sexual Saga

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    This hand-painted step-printed film begins with "explosions" of white, yellow, orange (deepening into reds), vermillion, and darker red flame shapes....

    Sexual Saga
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)

    Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)

    Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)

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    Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city.

    Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
  • 1972
    Sexual Meditation: Hotel

    Sexual Meditation: Hotel

    Sexual Meditation: Hotel

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    This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and...

    Sexual Meditation: Hotel
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

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    Begins with blue negative face of child, ends with single centered eye.

    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
  • 1981
    Arabic Numeral Series 7

    Arabic Numeral Series 7

    Arabic Numeral Series 7

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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...

    Arabic Numeral Series 7
  • 1955
    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

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    Wedding gift from Maya Deren to Geoffrey Holder; Stan Brakhage and Larry Jordan made film of wedding at Maya Deren’s invitation, told to be...

    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding