Stan Brakhage Movie Trailers
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Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection Trailer (1953)
01 January 1953
An anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There's a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls.
Wedlock House: An Intercourse Trailer (1959)
27 April 1959
We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home.
Brakhage Trailer (1998)
17 September 1998
BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travelers, and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators.
Garden Path Trailer (2001)
09 August 2001
A depiction of the creative process of hand-painting film giant, Stan Brakhage. Inspired by Monet's paintings from Giverny, Brakhage's luminous abstract painting transforms the screen into an oneiric botanical landscape.
Max Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
A single roll, edited in camera, reveals a small portrait of our ever-present cat. -Marilyn Brakhage
Prelude 18 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Singly-printed evolution from a deep blue-blackness of hard-edge twisting and sweeping bars and deep black swirls of dry-cracked and electrically "webbed" blotches, giving way to mixtures of bright blue and deep black sweeps of almost hieroglyphic forms midst swirls of multiple colors played against fleeting blacks evolving into multiple shapes in contrastingly brilliant whites.
Prelude 23 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Prelude 23 is doubly-printed hand-painted frames causing an effect almost as if wisps of tone were tinting the film intercut with sharp thin lines which "fatten," then, into thick crowded layers of paint, senses of great visual depth.
Prelude 15 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Doubly-printed striations of "brush-strokes" through multicolored "rock" forms dissolving then to blackened "mud" eliciting increasing sense of being under earth.
Persian Series #4 Trailer (1999)
26 April 1999
Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures of every conceivable previous shape from the Persian Series.
Persian Series #1 Trailer (1999)
26 April 1999
This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed by darkness, then becomes lit lightning-like by sharp multiply-colored twigs-of shape, all resolving into shapes of decay.
Prelude 22 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Prelude 22 is a singly-printed hand-painted thick black and gold swatches of color which evolve into forms that are horizontally and vertically sliced, smeared, cut-off until color "runs" sensuously in snake-like shapes, coils, soforth.
Reflections on Black Trailer (1955)
25 January 1955
A series of terrifying dramas of male-female relationships offset against the background of a New York tenement.
Prelude 21 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Prelude 21 is most characterized by the double-time of single-frame printing of extremely thick swatches of multiple colors as if in a furiously boiling cauldron.
Roman Numeral: II Trailer (1979)
13 March 1979
Now that "II" has been completed, one would suppose that the above film "I" is "One"... unless, of course, this film's spoken title is "aye-aye" or even, perhaps, slyly referring to the two "eyes" which made it, as distinct from the singularity of vision which flattened space in the making of its predecessor.
Persian Series #2 Trailer (1999)
26 April 1999
Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching script.
The Wold-Shadow Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor.
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular Trailer (1961)
07 November 1961
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 as we've been trained to call a color a color, as so forth) and patterns that move straight out from the inside of the mind through the optic nerves.
Christ Mass Sex Dance Trailer (1991)
05 May 1991
This work, composed of six rolls of superimposed images set to Tenney’s electronic music track ‘Blue Suede’, is a celebration of the balletic restraints of adolescent sexuality — (shaped in this instance) by ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ of Tchaikovsky as well as the gristly roots of Elvis Presley.
Dog Star Man: Part III Trailer (1964)
17 November 1964
Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, a man and a woman's, close up, nude - patches of skin, wisps of hair, glimpses of a face and genitalia; strips of celluloid with lines and squiggles scratched on them; and, close-up shots of what appear to be the insides of living bodies - a heart beating, muscle and sinew and tissue wet with fluids.
The Extraordinary Child Trailer (1954)
12 November 1954
The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars.
Prelude 20 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Prelude 20 begins with pale washes of hand-painted tones overlaid eventually by sharp forms, a kind of sliced color becoming more and more smeared.
Prelude 24 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Prelude 24 returns to the tempo of single-frame printing. Its shapes and forms are composed of nearly black torques of ink, flickering with white and only faintly, now and again, tinged with color.
Prelude 1 Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to multi-colored brush strokes and finally fulsomely darkened and thickened brush-strokes which then thin to something akin to the beginning.
Prelude 6 Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Interplay of mostly horizontal lines inter-woven with "watermark" forms in a wide variety of tones which gradually tend to dissolve into blues at the end.
Dance Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
This film begins with points of light defining a dark space out of which a female dancer (Vivienne Palmer) emerges dressed in a semi-transparent green dress.
Song 11 Trailer (1965)
03 September 1965
SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Hand painting, dye treatments and direct collage edited into 'themes and variations' that tell 'a thousand and one' stories.
Eye Myth Educational Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
"I've printed each single frame 12 times or 8 times [...] This permits people to study a it little more [.
We Hold These Trailer (1995)
13 October 1995
Part 2 of Trilogy. Dedicated to Phil Solomon. The "Truths" of this film, which the title prompts, are slightly recognizable patterns of fish and animal biology, plant and flower shapes, and human anatomy which are interwoven with pastel cubes and other geometries - pastels as if "hung" in a white light interwoven with straight and diagonally bent black lines, eventually clear architectural forms.
Filmmakers Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol.
4A Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
A hand-painted Brakhage film made specifically for Anthology Film Archives.
Babylon Series #2 Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
Out of the vagueries of sometime beseeming repetitive light patterns, and the delicately variable rhythms of thought process, the imagination of The Monumental and of the Ephemeral are born to mind hard as nails.
Prelude 3 Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Many white interruptive frames and absolutely straight-edged multi-colored lines amidst "clouds" of color, finally thickened into blobs with lengthy white (clear leader) spacing between them.
Prelude 4 Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their "weave" with each other which is increasingly interrupted by ragged-edged blobs and smears of color.
Prelude 17 Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Double-printed thinnest possible lines and multiple dots of pale color interwoven with sweeps of linear tones in swiftly transversing motion, all deepening from this almost white field of flitting activity to some solidification of forms.
Prelude 2 Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift tone and lighten until ending on thin blues.
Lovemaking Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A film about the naturalness of sexuality. Its four sequences feature heterosexual and homosexual lovemaking, dogs copulating, and naked childen at play.
Song 5 Trailer (1964)
20 March 1964
SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Persian Series #3 Trailer (1999)
26 April 1999
Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both rounded and soft-edged shapes shot with black.
Keeping an Eye on Stan Trailer (2003)
03 March 2003
The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.
Prelude 5 Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are constantly interrupted by "cloud"-like forms.
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Visiting the famous Anasazi cliff dwellings in Colorado, abandoned about 1275, Brakhage thought, "There is terror here.
Kindering Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Refracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl.
Trumpit Trailer (1956)
01 January 1956
Featuring a card game played on the body of a naked woman, Lawrence Jordan portrays male sexual frustration while slyly satirizing Hollywood reaction shots.
Fire of Waters Trailer (1965)
25 October 1965
Black atmosphere, with depth-enhancing points of light, broken into shades of dim silhouettes by the ephemeral cloud-glow of lightning.
Crack Glass Eulogy Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
A nostalgic envisionment of city living - the potential shards of memory seen as if always on the verge of cutting the mind to pieces.
Duplicity III Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
The final Duplicity film does seem at resolve with the term. All previous visual manifestations have been extended to their limits, through four-roll superimpositions.
The Domain of the Moment Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
Four films in contemplation upon those events which are so centered upon one moment that chronology seems almost obliterated or at least unimportant in remembrance.
Jane Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Someone said to me, of this film, that it was really about light; but Jane (who takes it as a portrait – i.
The Art of Vision Trailer (1965)
20 May 1965
A deconstruction of Dog Star Man that takes the four rolls and shows them first combined, then each combination of three rolls, then each combination of two rolls, then each individual roll.
City Streaming Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of the experience of living there.
Tragoedia Trailer (1977)
08 October 1977
This film was conceived about 10 years ago when I heard Norman O. Brown define "Tragedy" as "goat-song" (or as Webster has it: "Greek tragoidia fr.
The Way to Shadow Garden Trailer (1954)
05 February 1954
This way madness - or experimental filmmaking - lies. A solitary man in coat and tie enters an apartment.
Star Garden Trailer (1974)
29 April 1974
The "star", as it is singular, is the sun; and it is metaphored, at the beginning of this film, by the projector anyone uses to show forth.
Prelude 14 Trailer (1996)
26 February 1996
Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and grays and shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot-thru with sufficient yellow to break up all hard-edge form and give a molten aspect to the mixtures of shapes.
Song 8 Trailer (1964)
20 March 1964
SONG 8: Sea Creatures. The Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1963 to 1969.
Prelude 11 Trailer (1996)
26 February 1996
Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.
Persian Series #12 Trailer (2000)
11 August 2000
"Hot" by-play of reds-greens-yellows in black, blurred, finally, as the color shapes are shifted violently from side to side, finally ending of a sharp entanglement of multicolored twig-like and/or stem-like forms.
Sexual Meditation: Open Field Trailer (1973)
20 May 1973
OPEN FIELD is in the mind, of course, and exists as a weave of trees, grasses, waters, and bodies poised and fleeting at childhood's end.