Stan Brakhage

Directly in the tradition of SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: Motel, this “sequel” does explore further possibilities of nudes in a room. ...

The term “The Weir-Falcon Saga” appeared to me, night after night, at the end of a series of dreams: I was “true” to the ...

A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the ‘myths of childhood’ through ...

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 ...

A look at the inner workings of a hospital.

The film begins with the image of a dead bird. The mind moves to forget, as well as to remember: this film graphs the process of forgetfulness ...

Persian Series #13 is a series of extremely dark images, mostly in purples, greens, and fiery red-orange-yellows, shifting one to another in ...

5 parts of the Lovesongs cycle

Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden ...

Persian Series #11 begins with a “window” of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating ...

Short film from Stan Brakhage

Centuries of June, perhaps more than any Cornell film, is a naked attempt to capture the soul of a place and the mood of a disappearing moment.

A series of terrifying dramas of male-female relationships offset against the background of a New York tenement.

short by brakhage

Refracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl. There’s a dog, a ...

A visual representation, in four parts, of one man’s internalization of “The Divine Comedy.” Hell is a series of multicolored ...

This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should ...

“This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colors are interwoven with words (in English) from the first Hymn to the ...

Inspired by a bad fall on a patch of black ice (that ultimately resulted in Brakhage’s need for eye surgery), the filmmaker gives us ...

Four superimposed rolls of hand-painted and bi-packed television negative imagery are edited so as to approximate the hypnagogic process whereby ...

A short film by Stan Brakhage.

This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I’m able) the hypnagogic ...

A short film by Stan Brakhage featuring music by Rick Corrigan.

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes ...

This hand-painted, step-printed film begins with streaks of light and vibrantly colored forms. There appears, frame center, the tapered shape of ...

Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see ...

An experimental short film from Stan Brakhage.

Part of Three Hand-Painted Films, Night Music (originally painted on IMAX) attempts to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when ...

A short film by Stan Brakhage

Part of Three Hand-Painted Films