Stan Brakhage Movie Trailers
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Between Trailer (1955)
01 January 1955
Portrait of Jesse Collins: a daydream nightmare in the surrealist tradition.
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.
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.
Roman Numeral: III Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
The third in this series of Imagnostic Films seems particularly magic to me in as much as I cannot even remember the photographic source of these images or, thus, having taken them.
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.
Stan & Jane Brakhage Trailer (1981)
31 March 1981
A poignant portrait of Stan and Jane Brakhage visiting Juarez.
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�
Arabic Numeral Series 17 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.
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 #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.
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.
Jonas in the Desert Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
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.
Absence Trailer (1976)
26 December 1976
"This film is about 'nothing.' Hints of dramatic 'loss' are imaged throughout, but the primary effect of the film is to give, through fleeting and ephemeral visions, a sense of something which almost exists but unhappily doesn't.
The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (for Gordon) Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
Here are a couple films from the mid-'60s, given to Gordon Rosenblum at the time, which surfaced this year needing preservation.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches Trailer (1968)
01 March 1968
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols.
20 Little Films Trailer (2012)
13 February 2012
Since 1995, the Viennale has invited renowned directors to create short, one-minute films as personal contributions to the festival.
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four Trailer (1970)
12 February 1970
Section IV is the longest of the four parts and the one in which the photographic material from the past plays the most prominent role.
My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers Trailer (1969)
12 April 1969
Second Part of Song 27 (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Salome Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
Portrait of the great chess master, aesthetician, human being, Eugene Salome.
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages Trailer (2022)
21 September 2022
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system over the years.
Invocation: Maya Deren Trailer (1986)
24 April 1986
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, and recordings of her lectures.
Arabic Numeral Series 2 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 Weir-Falcon Saga Trailer (1970)
09 September 1970
The term "The Weir-Falcon Saga" appeared to me, night after night, at the end of a series of dreams: I was "true" to the feeling, tho not the images, of those dreams in the editing of this and the following two films.
Black Vision Trailer (1965)
10 August 1965
"... is inspired by the only passage in Jean Paul Sartre's writings which has ever specifically concerned me – the passage from Nausea wherein the protagonist sits in a park and imagines his suicide.
Roman Numeral: I Trailer (1979)
05 July 1979
An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower, but some flower that couldn't exist except on film.
Rounds Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
ROUNDS is a hand-painted film composed of a series of film loops printed in such a fashion that, while there is a feeling of repetitive familiarity, no actual example of specific repetition is easily seeable.