Stan Brakhage Movies

To the child mind, the transformative sacrificial power of "O, Lamb of God" is a daily manifestation - not as an adult shift-of-interest, but rather...

Begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with a candle wick burning, circled by boiling gold flecks.

Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. With interest in...

"This film is a collaboration between Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. It is a hand-painted film incorporating treated film images of trees in Fall...

"Gadflies, a record of a reunion of a group of old high school friends, is filmed with an eye toward the rhythms of conversation, of group...

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. (S.B.) "Has aspects of the diary film...The Dream is one of the most...

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

A series of five hand-painted, step-printed films, each of which is a textured, thus tangible, "nothing." A series of "nots," then, in pun, or knots...

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

Colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two began with strips of film Brakhage had painted on by hand, photographing them frame by...

“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...

Short B/W film about the textures of the human skin and household objects, showing Brakhage in the morning as reality distorts around him. Revised in...

What can one say? – that won’t limit by language the complexity of moving visual thinking?… the skein of pattern that seeks to...

“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...

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

This hand-painted work presents the semblance of a dark brown wall, ripped open and pocked with yellowed visions of rooms and other interiors,...

This is one of those "little films" which is pure "cine poem" in the sense that it is picture, but also given over to what we call "abstract" - which...

A film photographed in Amsterdam but dedicated to capturing a quality of mind engendered there - not, certainly, alienation (as often in travel) but...

What shall one say? – S.B.

“After wishing for years to be given the opportunity of filming some of the more “mystical” occupations of our Times – which...