Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1968
    Lovemaking

    Lovemaking

    Lovemaking

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    A film about the naturalness of sexuality. Its four sequences feature heterosexual and homosexual lovemaking, dogs copulating, and naked childen at...

    Lovemaking
  • 1980
    Sincerity

    Sincerity

    Sincerity

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    Experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage utilized previously unused personal archival footage to construct the autobiographical Sincerity.

    Sincerity
  • 1995
    In Consideration of Pompeii

    In Consideration of Pompeii

    In Consideration of Pompeii

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    Since the age of 17/18, I've been haunted by the catastrophe of Pompeii – beginning with photographs (sold as pornography in high school) of...

    In Consideration of Pompeii
  • 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)
  • 1996
    Through Wounded Eyes

    Through Wounded Eyes

    Through Wounded Eyes

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    "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...

    Through Wounded Eyes
  • 2003
    Encomium

    Encomium

    Encomium

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    I shot this roll of film at a party Bard College threw when it awarded Stan Brakhage an honorary degree. A few days after he died, I dug it out and...

    Encomium
  • 1978
    Nightmare Series

    Nightmare Series

    Nightmare Series

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    A decade and a half ago, poet Robert Kelly told me that the "crucial work" of our time might be what he calls "the dream work": I hope, with this...

    Nightmare Series
  • 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)
  • 2000
    Jesus Trilogy and Coda

    Jesus Trilogy and Coda

    Jesus Trilogy and Coda

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    The Jesus Trilogy and Coda is composed of the four following parts: (1) IN JESUS NAME presents an almost continuous fluttering movement midst the...

    Jesus Trilogy and Coda
  • 2004
    Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability

    Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability

    Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability

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    In a voiceover Stan Brakhage articulates his resentments about the use of computers for art production and in general. This comment is contrasted by...

    Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
  • 1963
    Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News

    Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News

    Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News

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    Three TV "concretes."

    Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News
  • 1965
    Black Vision

    Black Vision

    Black Vision

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    "... is inspired by the only passage in Jean Paul Sartre's writings which has ever specifically concerned me – the passage from Nausea wherein...

    Black Vision
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)

    Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)

    Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)

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    Begins with raccoon in a rose light, ends with fading face of child.

    Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
  • 1989
    Babylon Series #1

    Babylon Series #1

    Babylon Series #1

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    After a six -or seven- year study of Hammurabi's Code, original Babylonian Text and translation, I've tried to feel my way into the moving visual...

    Babylon Series #1
  • 1995
    As Is Was

    As Is Was

    As Is Was

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    This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was...

    As Is Was
  • 1980
    4A

    4A

    4A

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    A hand-painted Brakhage film made specifically for Anthology Film Archives.

    4A
  • 1998
    I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)

    I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)

    I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)

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    Stan Brakhage shows his new films at MoMA in New York. Before that, he said hello to me, Jonas Mekas, Birgit, the Anthology team and others. Later,...

    I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)
  • 2009
    For Stan

    For Stan

    For Stan

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    For Stan is a tribute film shot by Marilyn Brakhage of her husband at work with his camera in the late 1980s and early 90s – illuminating their...

    For Stan
  • 2000
    Looking at Forest of Bliss

    Looking at Forest of Bliss

    Looking at Forest of Bliss

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    Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss. The...

    Looking at Forest of Bliss
  • 2008
    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

    Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

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    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