Stan Brakhage Movie Trailers
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Moilsome Toilsome Trailer (1999)
16 May 1999
This is a photographed filmic searching-for-whales, the camerawork and editing attempting to approximate something of the rubbing up against water of the whale, of the surface foam and the hard coils of water through which it swims, of the gray-greens and blacks of its environment.
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty Trailer (2000)
05 November 2000
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
Occam's Thread Trailer (2001)
18 February 2001
This is a hand painted, step printed work which views Occam's economical vision of life (The Razor's Edge') as something more thread-like: a staggered black line, growing steadily more solid, albeit often tangled trails vertically across the film surface, insinuating itself (it's life as it were) through a series of various paint shapes, some of which seem as if about to destroy it, bury it in black patches or cut into it: finally the line as if severed in glare of white leader, ending in multicolored paint patch.
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two Trailer (1969)
06 May 1969
In Section II we see a series of discrete sequences showing the children, now somewhat older, in different types of play.
Arabic Numeral Series 12 Trailer (1981)
18 January 1981
This is the twelfth film in the twenty-part Arabics series. Brakhage creates blurry visual fields that are profoundly without ground, worlds of unidentifiable, ever-shifting shapes, and oceans of light and darkness.
Confession Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
"Firstly, I revealed in salutary confession the secret filth of my misdeed, which had long been festering in stagnant silence; and I made it my custom to confess often, and thus to display the wounds of my blinded soul.
Very Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
The second, of these companion films (interspersed by a "Technicolor+ countdown") introduces The Movies (Narrative Dramatic Scenes briefly flickering midst hypnogogic-painting) in addition to the closed-eye vision and language combination of Night Mulch.
Night Mulch Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
This film is hand-painted and is essentially about the interplay between hypnagogic vision and words, the effect of the one upon the other, the contest between the two.
Zone Moment Trailer (1956)
01 January 1956
Shots of city and country life come together to form an impressionistic whole. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Stellar Trailer (1993)
31 December 1993
This is a hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity-of-motion, and makes partial use of painted frames in repetition (for "close-up" of textures).
Dominion Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
The "Dynamo theories" of Henry Adams portrayed first person/sexual vision: an American businessman as lord of all he surveys.
Sweetgrass Trailer (2009)
18 November 2009
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels Trailer (1999)
04 July 1999
This film is a hand-painted combination of shapes which suggest, as appropriately colored, jungle, open veldt, horizontals of grasses, shag-shape yellow of lion's mane, the black & white stripes of the zebra, the eyes, the teeth, the tearing open into raw blood-red meat and curve of bone.
Marilyn's Window Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
This stream-of-consciousness could be nothing less than pathway of the soul, as images of Marilyn's window are remembered from inside-out, its "view" interwoven with all of other windowing and the Elements of the known world.
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.
Water for Maya Trailer (2000)
28 March 2000
Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren.
Sexual Meditation: Room with View Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
Directly in the tradition of SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: Motel, this "sequel" does explore further possibilities of nudes in a room.
The Text of Light Trailer (1974)
26 October 1974
Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray.
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite Trailer (1972)
09 August 1972
This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial environ which this energy often creates.
Naughts Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
A series of five hand-painted, step-printed films, each of which is a textured, thus tangible, "nothing.
Prelude 9 Trailer (1996)
26 February 1996
...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression of The Statue of Liberty – and, then, impressions of Toronto with its architectural particularities appearing, midst hurrying people – shapes (almost as if photographed at times).
The Wonder Ring Trailer (1955)
04 December 1955
An important early film by Stan Brakhage, which Joseph Cornell commissioned as a record of New York's Third Avenue elevated train before it was torn down.
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes Trailer (1972)
19 February 1972
At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. "S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room.
The 'b' Series Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
This film is a series of five little hand-painted and elaborately step-printed sections which are individually titled but so inter-related I've decided they should always be shown in this order together, but each such a distinction of the essentially un-nameable subject matter they variously facet that they should retain the character of individual pieces within their shared context .
Persian Series #17 Trailer (2001)
14 November 2001
Persian Series #17 is a series of quite distinct globules of paint brilliantly colored and shifting as if vertically in the plane (as different from the more horizontally oriented previous parts).
Prelude 13 Trailer (1996)
26 February 1996
Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until there's an evolution of hard-edge autumn leaf patterns which dissipate into patterns similar to the beginning of the film.
Western History Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
A thumbnail History of the Western World, all centered around the basketball court. - Canyon Cinema
Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale Trailer (1972)
09 August 1972
This, the third of the Sexual Meditation Series, might also be seen as a triangular portrait of Julia and P.
Concrescence Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
"concrescence, principle of As a term from A.N. Whitehead's metaphysics refers to the drive things possess that impel them to actualization, the creative urge towards concrescence, for producing novel advances through the generation of greater interrelatedness.
"..." 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.
Matins Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
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 is to say it arises as mind's light and exists, as such, as filmic "prayer.
Persian Series #11 Trailer (2000)
11 August 2000
Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes.
Persian Series #7 Trailer (2000)
28 March 2000
Very pale, thin, hieroglyphic pinks, greens and blues in a white space which is thickened over by ribbed mashes of these colors which "dissolve" into varied shapes almost suggesting landscapes and ephemeral bouquets.
Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself Trailer (1962)
01 January 1962
In “Mr. Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life”, Mr. Tompkins learns about biology. In a wild and entertaining dream, his creator, author George Gamow, sends him through his own blood steam to investigate how his body really functions.
Arabic Numeral Series 1 Trailer (1981)
17 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.
Centuries of June Trailer (1955)
01 January 1955
Centuries of June, perhaps more than any Cornell film, is a naked attempt to capture the soul of a place and the mood of a disappearing moment.
The Fur of Home Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
A hand-painted double-frame printed film which begins with textures reminiscent of a gray shag rug that is fretted by green and golden flashes-of-shape deepening into darker solid purples and even black solidities at brief intervals: this evolves into black hair-like lines which curl and trace circularities midst all earlier textures, forms and colors until, finally, tanned flesh and blood tones predominate.
A Visit to Stan Brakhage Trailer (2003)
03 May 2003
A portrait of Brakhage shot in Victoria, British Columbia, just a few months before his death. Filmmaker Pip Chodorov illustrates Brakhage's reflections on his art with short passages from his hand-painted films.
Loud Visual Noises Trailer (1987)
26 March 1987
Hand-painted — closed-eye — film envisioning optic feedback in response to sound. Collaborative soundtrack compiled by Joel Haertling with sound contributions by Die Tödliche Doris (WG), Zoviet France (UK), Nurse With Wound (UK), The Hafler Trio (NL), Joel Haertling (US) and I.
Arabic Numeral Series 9 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.
The Machine of Eden Trailer (1970)
23 September 1970
"'Mis-takes' give birth to 'shape' (which, in this work, is 'matter,' subject and otherwise) amidst a weave of thought: .
23rd Psalm Branch Trailer (1967)
27 January 1967
Made during the height of the Vietnam War, Stan Brakhage has said of this film that he was hoping to bring some clarity to the subject of war.
Arabic Numeral Series 8 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.
Arabic Numeral Series 16 Trailer (1982)
18 January 1982
“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.
Sartre's Nausea Trailer (1961)
19 April 1961
This film has never been in distribution, and it’s arguably not a true Brakhage film, as it was made as a commission for a 1961 public television program on KRMA-TV in Boulder (but aired nationally), called Self Encounter: A Study in Existentialism, created and hosted by Hazel Barnes, an acclaimed scholar on the subject.
Seasons... Trailer (2002)
23 September 2002
Brakhage's frame-by-frame hand carvings and etchings directly into the film emulsion, sometimes photographically combined with paint, are illuminated by Solomon's optical printing; this footage was then edited by Solomon into a four part 'seasonal cycle'.
Persian Series #16 Trailer (2001)
14 November 2001
Persian Series #16 is an even more exaggerated contrast of color and black-and-white patterning.
Persian Series #8 Trailer (2000)
28 March 2000
Pale petal and stem-like shapes counter punted rhythmically by an even paler "background" of truly ephemeral of truly ephemeral (almost invisible) shapes.
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
This film was originally photographed in 1970 in regular 8mm. It was, a decade later, blown up to 16mm so that it could join the rest of the Sexual Meditation series.
Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning) Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and scratch-homages to Jerome Hill.
Earthen Aerie Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
This hand-painted, step-printed film begins with several seconds of blank white (interrupted by red and brief electric yellow) and then proceeds to multiply flecked earth and rock shapes and root-like forms which seem to suck horizontally inward and upward midst phosphorescent greens and blues increasingly flecked with light-yellows giving way to tree-top branch likenesses taking oblique shape against a phosphor sky.
Encomium Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
I shot this roll of film at a party Bard College threw when it awarded Stan Brakhage an honorary degree.
Watunna Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
The creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Orinoco region of Venezuela provide a transparent look at the poetic process by which human beings construct meaning from their experience.
Persian Series #15 Trailer (2001)
14 November 2001
Persian Series #15 is a rapid shift of patterns black & white playing off against muted coils of color.
Arabic Numeral Series 19 Trailer (1982)
18 January 1982
“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.
Made Manifest Trailer (1981)
28 March 1981
"Every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Colorado Legend Trailer (1960)
01 January 1960
A tale of two gold miners of the old west who struck it rich. The lonely life made them heavy drinkers, and one night when the heavyset and silent Dutchman wouldn't talk to the feisty little Irishman, he was knifed to death.
Persian Series #18 Trailer (2001)
14 November 2001
Persian Series #18 is almost calligraphic in its overlays of dark (occasionally colored) glyphs backed by brilliant color motifs.
Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene) Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Begins with rocks, tree trucks, plants in glow of light, ends with green and gold forest scene.
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie Trailer (1961)
01 January 1961
"I had a camera with which I could make multiple superimpositions spontaneously. It had been lent to me for a week.