Stan Brakhage Movie Trailers
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Anticipation of the Night Trailer (1958)
22 April 1958
First person view of a man, seen only in shadow, attempting to connect with the world around him.
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.
A Visit to Stan Brakhage Trailer (2006)
01 November 2006
In late 1966 I visited Stan Brakhage in Rollinsville, Colorado. This is a portrait of Stan at home, with his family, his animals, and the surroundings, 9000 feet high.
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.
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.
Comingled Containers Trailer (1996)
04 September 1996
Comingled Containers is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage. "This 'return to photography' (after several years of only painting film) was made on the eve of cancer surgery - a kind of 'last testament,' if you will… an envisionment of the fleeting complexity of worldly phenomenon.
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.
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two Trailer (2010)
25 May 2010
In Criterion’s first volume of the anthology By Brakhage, we brought twenty-six astonishing works by the avant-garde film pioneer Stan Brakhage to home video for the first time.
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.
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Flares of color break into streams of light, leaves, wood grain and prism-etched vegetation. A moon lifts out of this dark weave to be replaced by autumn leaves against a grainy sky, a fiery sky.
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.
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.
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.
Drawings by Billy and His Friends Trailer (2011)
07 May 2011
In this experimental short film, Kristian Day collected artwork created by the public. He found the majority of the pieces at "Sharpie marker demonstration tables" and it took almost a year to collect the artwork.
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 .
Dog Star Man: Part II Trailer (1964)
30 July 1964
A man, accompanied by a dog, struggles through snow on a mountain side. We see film stock blister; drawn square shapes appear.
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
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One Trailer (2003)
09 June 2003
Working completely outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: .
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.
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 #10 Trailer (2000)
11 August 2000
"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms.
Persian Series #14 Trailer (2001)
14 November 2001
Persian Series #14 is composed of muted color-shapes shifting variably in juxtaposition and contrast with high-contrast black & white abstract patterns.
Arabic Numeral Series 0 + 10 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.
Other Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
A film photographed in Amsterdam but dedicated to capturing a quality of mind engendered there - not, certainly, alienation (as often in travel) but rather some heightened sense of being other.
Arabic Numeral Series 18 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.
Persian Series #6 Trailer (2000)
28 March 2000
Persian Series #6 begins with what appears to be dried red and yellow rose petals, suddenly shot-thru with blue which causes a shift to violets and greens.