Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1998

    "..." Reel 5

    "..." Reel 5

    5.6321998HD

    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...

  • 1980
    Duplicity III

    Duplicity III

    Duplicity III

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    The final Duplicity film does seem at resolve with the term. All previous visual manifestations have been extended to their limits, through four-roll...

    Duplicity III
  • 2002
    Vakvagany

    Vakvagany

    Vakvagany

    8.52002HD

    Hungarian home movies are examined by the likes of James Ellroy and Stan Brakhage for evidence of family problems.

    Vakvagany
  • 1965
    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

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    BLUE WHITE, "an intonation of child birth"; BLOOD'S TONE, "a golden nursing film"; VEIN, "a film of baby Buddha masturbation."

    Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
  • 1978
    Thot-Fal'N

    Thot-Fal'N

    Thot-Fal'N

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    This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and...

    Thot-Fal'N
  • 1973
    The Women

    The Women

    The Women

    01973HD

    A psychodrama. A being-without-clothes (as inspired by the painter Paul Delvaux). A film which searches thru two women its definitive 'The.'

    The Women
  • 1988
    Rage Net

    Rage Net

    Rage Net

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    Another of Brakhage’s works of “moving visual thinking,” Rage Net reminds one of the vibrant pioneering experiments of European...

    Rage Net
  • 2008
    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

    02008HD

    In 1958 R. Igor Gamow first met Jane Brakhage. Peter Garrity, in his new documentary film, "Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow" follows their life long...

    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow
  • 2003
    Chinese Series

    Chinese Series

    Chinese Series

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    Stan Brakhage's final film, made shortly before his death by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail to scratch marks into the...

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

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

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

    01975HD

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

    Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
  • 1974
    The Text of Light

    The Text of Light

    The Text of Light

    61974HD

    Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray. "'All that is is...

    The Text of Light
  • 1977
    The Domain of the Moment

    The Domain of the Moment

    The Domain of the Moment

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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...

    The Domain of the Moment
  • 1981
    Stan & Jane Brakhage

    Stan & Jane Brakhage

    Stan & Jane Brakhage

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    A poignant portrait of Stan and Jane Brakhage visiting Juarez.

    Stan & Jane Brakhage
  • 1984
    Tortured Dust Part 3

    Tortured Dust Part 3

    Tortured Dust Part 3

    01984HD

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

    Tortured Dust Part 3
  • 1952
    Interim

    Interim

    Interim

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    A young man meets a young woman under a bridge by a railroad. They shelter from the rain and exchange a kiss. The man grows sullen and leaves. The...

    Interim
  • 1971
    Deus Ex

    Deus Ex

    Deus Ex

    5.2731971HD

    I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUX EX.

    Deus Ex
  • 1993
    Study in Color and Black and White

    Study in Color and Black and White

    Study in Color and Black and White

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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...

    Study in Color and Black and White
  • 1987
    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

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    This documentary, made seven years after the death of legendary filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye, tells Lye's story: from being a young boy...

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
  • 2002
    Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day

    Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day

    Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day

    7.62002HD

    A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002.

    Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
  • 1989
    Visions in Meditation #1

    Visions in Meditation #1

    Visions in Meditation #1

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    This is a film inspired by Gertrude Stein's "Stanzas In Meditation", in which the filmmaker has edited a meditative series of images of landscapes...

    Visions in Meditation #1