Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 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
  • 1956
    Flesh of Morning

    Flesh of Morning

    Flesh of Morning

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    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...

    Flesh of Morning
  • 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

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    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
  • 1967
    23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

    23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

    23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

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    The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in...

    23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
  • 1961
    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

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    Only at a crisis do I see both the scene as I've been trained to see it ( that is, with Renaissance perspective, three-dimensional logic–colors...

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
  • 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
  • 1970
    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four

    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four

    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four

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    Section IV is the longest of the four parts and the one in which the photographic material from the past plays the most prominent role. We see more...

    Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four
  • 1962
    Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender

    Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender

    Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender

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    This film seems to be lost, possibly left at KQED in San Francisco. Morton Subotnick has feelers out trying to find it, but no luck yet. - Mark...

    Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender
  • 1991
    Christ Mass Sex Dance

    Christ Mass Sex Dance

    Christ Mass Sex Dance

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    This work, composed of six rolls of superimposed images set to Tenney’s electronic music track ‘Blue Suede’, is a celebration of...

    Christ Mass Sex Dance
  • 1957
    Loving

    Loving

    Loving

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    In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows...

    Loving
  • 1990
    Passage Through: A Ritual

    Passage Through: A Ritual

    Passage Through: A Ritual

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    “[Passage Through] required the most exacting editing process ever; and in the course of that work it occurred to me that I’d originally...

    Passage Through: A Ritual
  • 1994
    Elementary Phrases

    Elementary Phrases

    Elementary Phrases

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    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...

    Elementary Phrases
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1956
    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

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    The young man, played by Stan Brakhage, gets himself into a seriously comic mix-up by indulging in semi-sexual fantasies, and allowing the fantasies...

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward
  • 1981
    Arabic Numeral Series 3

    Arabic Numeral Series 3

    Arabic Numeral Series 3

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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 3
  • 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
  • 1962
    Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself

    Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself

    Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself

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    In “Mr. Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life”, Mr. Tompkins learns about biology. In a wild and entertaining dream, his creator, author...

    Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
  • 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