Stan Brakhage Movie Trailers
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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.
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.
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.
Flight Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Pun on "light" intended - that short preceding expulsion of breath perhaps the "subject matter" of this film which centers in consideration of death.
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.
Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender Trailer (1962)
01 January 1962
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.
Fox Fire Child Watch Trailer (1971)
16 August 1971
Ken, Flo and Nisi Jacobs in the Syracuse Airport: this is what you might call baby-sitting in the swamp.
Song of the Mushroom Trailer (2002)
01 September 2002
Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage.
Sexual Meditation: Hotel Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room.
Blossom-Gift/Favor Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
Dedicated to Doug Edwards. All titles dominate linguistically; in that sense, any film would be better left unnamed.
"..." Reel 1 Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
This work is in five reels (numbered, but called "reels" so that they don't take on the connotations of "Parts" - thus each simply a part of the "trail" of colored scratches, white scratches ((on black & white leader) which suggest, to me, a passage).
In Between Trailer (1955)
01 January 1955
Portrait of Jesse Collins: a daydream nightmare in the surrealist tradition.
Aquarien Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
'EN'? -- as dictionary has it: 'made of, of or belonging to' (as I have it) Aquarius/an(d) so forth: Latin water carrier in the sky, etc.
Babylon Series #3 Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
This is an architectural garden of the variably brash rock-solid liquid-encompassing, but always imitative, human mind as it processes the given light thoughtfully.
Persian Series #9 Trailer (2000)
28 March 2000
Sharp edged "chunks" of color set in black, straight, often multicolored, lines piercing shapes, imprisoning them, until they are fragmented bits of color in black: repeat of this theme again and again until darkness prevails, but is then broken open by pure white shards and "spears" restoring the original "dance" of hard-edge shapes and lines, which then begin to whirl clockwise, interspersed with fade-outs, and then shatter into "confetti" texture, in black, burnt "sugar-shapes" and the overwhelming flare of yellow.
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 #13 Trailer (2001)
14 November 2001
Persian Series #13 is a series of extremely dark images, mostly in purples, greens, and fiery red-orange-yellows, shifting one to another in displays of textured shapes which suggest a thick tangle weave of threads.
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.
Stan & Jane Brakhage Trailer (1981)
31 March 1981
A poignant portrait of Stan and Jane Brakhage visiting Juarez.
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.
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding Trailer (1955)
07 July 1955
Wedding gift from Maya Deren to Geoffrey Holder; Stan Brakhage and Larry Jordan made film of wedding�
Persian Series #16 Trailer (2001)
14 November 2001
Persian Series #16 is an even more exaggerated contrast of color and black-and-white patterning.
The Thatch of Night Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
As a poem might be said to contain the night through a weave of words, so have I in this film attempted such a container with warp and woof of emblematic visions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Arabic Numeral Series 6 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Deus Ex Trailer (1971)
19 September 1971
I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUX EX.
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.
Persian Series #5 Trailer (1999)
26 April 1999
Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and flowers as if trying, linearly, to evolve a glyph-script.
The Dead Trailer (1960)
31 December 1960
"The Dead became my first work in which things that might very easily be taken as symbols were so photographed as to destroy all their symbolic potential.
Arabic Numeral Series 4 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.
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.
Sincerity II Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
This continuation of my autobiography is composed of film photographed by many people: Bruce Baillie, Jane Brakhage, Larry Jordan and Stan Phillips, among others.
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One Trailer (1968)
28 March 1968
A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child - a shattering of the "myths of childhood" through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it .
Flesh of Morning Trailer (1956)
06 January 1956
Short B/W film about the textures of the human skin and household objects, showing Brakhage in the morning as reality distorts around him.
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.
Arabic Numeral Series 14 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.
Arabic Numeral Series 13 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 Mammals of Victoria Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes step-printed hand-painting, abstractions composed of distorted (jammed) TV shapes in shades of blue with occasional red, refractions of light within the camera lens, sometimes mixed with reflections of water.
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.
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.
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.
Self Song & Death Song Trailer (1997)
22 October 1997
SELF SONG documents a body besieged by cancer. The amber glow of flesh suggests both victory and submission to death.
Blue Value Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
This is a hand-painted step-printed film which begins with slow dissolves of what appear to be decaying leaves, crumpled browns and golds and oranges which assume qualities of earth and rock shot-through with flashes of crystalline prism colors and jagged scratch marks amidst glows of multiple coloration with increasing blues, varieties of tones of blue, from turquoise to near-purple - these variations of tone (and shape, as well) gradually convey, given the comparatively few appearances of blue, a formal domination over all other tones (and attendant shapes) of the spectrum of the film.
Stately Mansions Did Decree Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
This hand-painted, elaborately step-printed film begins with what appears to be torn fragments of thick parchment erupting upward, out of which emerges a series of landscapes, gardens, exteriors of mansions, castles and the like, then (as yellow predominates over vegetable greens, Sherwood greens and deep floral reds, blood reds) interior corridors and rooms, as if lit by chandeliers which somewhat echo visually the beginning of the film.
Arabic Numeral Series 15 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.
Door Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
This is the only all-inclusive autobiography I've yet managed; and as I'm still alive, it is to be understood as a metaphor which defines the limits of expectations.
Arabic Numeral Series 11 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 Riddle of Lumen Trailer (1972)
11 October 1972
“The Riddle of Lumen” presents an evenly paced sequence of images, which seem to follow an elusive logic.
Arabic Numeral Series 3 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.
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.
Arabic Numeral Series 5 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.
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box Trailer (1991)
29 November 1991
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes.
Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton) Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill.