Stan Brakhage Movie Trailers
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Coupling Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
A hand-painted work prepared by my imagination of the sex act affecting internal organs of the human bodies.
Song 2 Trailer (1964)
20 March 1964
SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Song 21 Trailer (1966)
20 April 1966
SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Prelude 12 Trailer (1996)
26 February 1996
A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.
Song 20 Trailer (1966)
20 April 1966
SONGS 19 & 20: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Song 12 Trailer (1965)
03 September 1965
SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Song 3 Trailer (1964)
20 March 1964
SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Song 16 Trailer (1966)
20 April 1966
SONG 16: A flowering of sex as in the mind’s eye, a joy (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Prelude 10 Trailer (1996)
26 February 1996
Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and fleeting colored forms.
Song 18 Trailer (1966)
20 April 1966
SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Song 9 Trailer (1965)
01 March 1965
SONG 9: Wedding source and substance (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Murder Psalm Trailer (1980)
27 March 1980
Inspired in part by a dream he had of murdering his mother, Brakhage here gives us one of his profoundest meditations on human aggression.
Song 4 Trailer (1964)
20 March 1964
SONG 4: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Prelude 7 Trailer (1996)
26 February 1996
The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of nervous feedback, sometimes influenced by the colors of inlet waters, sometimes the wave movements, but more ordinarily by the cellular shifts and shapes of the optic system receiving exterior imagery.
Interim Trailer (1952)
12 November 1952
A young man meets a young woman under a bridge by a railroad. They shelter from the rain and exchange a kiss.
Song 19 Trailer (1966)
20 April 1966
SONGS 19: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Song 6 Trailer (1964)
20 March 1964
SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
The Women Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
A psychodrama. A being-without-clothes (as inspired by the painter Paul Delvaux). A film which searches thru two women its definitive 'The.
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Stan Brakhage is a film maker whose work is shown mainly at film festivals. His work has been likened to poetry.
Song 14 Trailer (1965)
03 September 1965
SONG 14: Molds, paints and crystals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Fireloop Trailer (1986)
02 January 1986
Part two of the Caswallon Trilogy, and the only film in the group to also be printed as a stand-alone.
The Trip to Door Trailer (1971)
16 August 1971
Jane and the kids go to town. Directly in the tradition of SCENES FROM UNDER CHILDHOOD, this film may indeed constitute a 3rd chapter to 'The Book of Film.
Alternating Currents Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
This was an unfinished collaboration with Stan Brakhage. This film was actually screened publicly at least a few times, including at Pacific Film Archive (11/15/1994, described as a premiere), MoMA (5/3/1999, also described as a premiere – probably a revision), and First Person Cinema, CU Boulder (4/24/2000).
Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day Trailer (2002)
04 April 2002
A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002.
Dark Night of The Soul Trailer (2001)
05 April 2001
This hand-painted work presents the semblance of a dark brown wall, ripped open and pocked with yellowed visions of rooms and other interiors, gradually (and always occasionally) intersperced with multiply colored holes, revealing exteriors beyond the shifting facades of the "wall".
Sol Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
1: SUN 2: not cap: GOLD - used in alchemy 3: the sun-god of the ancient Romans; but then also, as I understand it, a French word for earth, wherefrom we get our "sail"; and then (puns always intended, as I hear them): soul .
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II Trailer (1967)
27 January 1967
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 Colorado.
Untitled (For Marilyn) Trailer (1992)
09 March 1992
The film is officially untitled, but is referred to by the dedication that appears in place of a title card.
"..." Reel 4 Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
Reel #4 of (...) is a recapitulation of the primary variations of scratched (on black leader) shapes and additive colors (i.
Trio Trailer (1976)
23 December 1976
A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle.
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three Trailer (1969)
19 December 1969
Section Ill is the most abstract section of the four, and the only one which does not contain old photographic material.
Night Music Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
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 closed in meditation on sorrow.
Clancy Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
"This is a portrait of that man I choose to call the greatest I've known: Clancy, whom the fates surnamed Sheey, personifies for me that which is simply human beyond condition and all conditioning.
Arabic Numeral Series 7 Trailer (1981)
18 January 1981
“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 against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness.
"..." Reel 5 Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
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 sudden flare of pure white which begins to flicker with negative-colored ephemeral shapes, until finally the music and a fulsome mass of scratched images are accompanying each other.
Dog Star Man: Part I Trailer (1963)
18 March 1963
From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow.
"..." Reel 3 Trailer (1998)
04 January 1998
"The third and shortest section reintroduces camera-derived imagery and, minimal as it may be (sunlight shimmering on water, seagull wheeling in the sky), it's still a shock to see "something.
"..." Reel 2 Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
"A second 20-minute reel is more staccato mad chicken-scratch calligraphy fluttering out of a yellow void, sketchy lightning bolts or fireworks interrupted by a sudden field of turquoise.
Prelude 19 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Prelude 19 begins with hand-painted swatches of variable colors encompassed eventually by vertical strokes of reds and blues, followed by sudden clearings which are counterpointed by sections of multiple blobs of color, these effects alternating again and again to then become contrasted with pale washes of color deepening to end on blacks.
23rd Psalm Branch: Part I Trailer (1967)
27 January 1967
In this haunting but lyrical meditation on war, Brakhage intercuts 8-mm footage of Colorado with imagery from WWII newsreels.
15 Song Traits Trailer (1965)
03 September 1965
A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1 thru 14.
Vakvagany Trailer (2002)
05 March 2002
Hungarian home movies are examined by the likes of James Ellroy and Stan Brakhage for evidence of family problems.
Elementary Phrases Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
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 frame with Solomon’s optical printer.
Airs Trailer (1976)
22 December 1976
"This film rises out of my struggle to photograph the ephemeral qualities of varied air (as many Greek philosophers experienced such) and to arrange the resultant textures/tones of film (in sharp conjunction with images hard-edged as words can be) so that it be true as breath itself to the necessities of music.
Desert Trailer (1976)
25 December 1976
Says Fred Camper of the film: "Invited to Riverside, California, Brakhage, under the mistaken impression that it was a desert, was planning a desert movie when he arrived to discover an unattractive suburban landscape.
Centre Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
"...Series of narrative events, stories if you like, but so clustered visually as to have a center so to speak, slightly off center.
Prelude 8 Trailer (1996)
26 February 1996
...as removed as possible from any recognition of either exterior scene of interior feedback phenomena.
The Animals of Eden and After Trailer (1970)
23 September 1970
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 film I've ever made.
Prelude 16 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Singly-printed criss-crosses of molten "brush"-(hard-edge)-strokes of black over pebbled yellow, ending finally on an intermix of all intertwined forms with increasing lightness/whiteness.
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance Trailer (1979)
15 March 1979
Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of events dealing with the historical development of the number pi, Benning's travels, and homages to Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, George Landow (Owen Land), and Yvonne Rainer.
Three Homerics Trailer (1993)
01 September 1993
This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.
Hymn to Her Trailer (1974)
30 April 1974
"HER" to me is always Jane, in the first place, but also Hera: "goddess of women and marriage," naturally enough.
Rage Net Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Another of Brakhage’s works of “moving visual thinking,” Rage Net reminds one of the vibrant pioneering experiments of European animators of the 1920s.
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film Trailer (2011)
24 July 2011
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind Trailer (1997)
09 October 1997
This film, a combination of hand-painting and photography, is a fulsome exposition of the themes of DOG STAR MAN.
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him Trailer (2000)
28 March 2000
This film of single-strand photography begins with the "fire" of reflective light on water and on the barest inferences of a ship.
The Loom Trailer (1986)
30 December 1986
A multiple-superimposition hand-painted visual symphony of animal life of earth. THE LOOM might be compared to musical quartet-form (as there are almost always four superimposed pictures); but the complexity of texture, multiplicity of tone, and the variety of interrelated rhythm, suggest symphonic dimensions.
Two: Creeley/McClure Trailer (1965)
31 December 1965
Two portraits in relation to each other, the first of Robert Creeley, the second of Michael McClure. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.