Stan Brakhage Movie Trailers
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Cat's Cradle Trailer (1959)
01 January 1959
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up.
Dog Star Man Trailer (1965)
22 February 1965
Experimental film following a cycle of seasons as well as the stretch of a single day as a man and his dog slowly ascend a mountain.
Spring Cycle Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
This is a hand-painted, step-printed (with a variety of effects) film which begins with rock-like earth-toned shapes in darkness, followed by increasingly lighter pastel-colored mini-boulder forms to the right and left of the frame mimicking a whitish vertical tunneling (giving the illusion the viewer is moving upward, finally).
Gift Trailer (1973)
25 December 1973
A “found object of paint and mold” given to Brakhage by the poet David Meltzer. According to Jane Brakhage, Stan did nothing to it but see it, splice it, and add titles.
Nodes Trailer (1981)
04 May 1981
"nodus knot, node - more at NET) ... 4a: a point at which subsidiary parts originate or center ... 5: a point, line, or surface of a vibrating body that is free or relatively free from vibratory motion.
Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets) Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Begins with white lamp post, green tree leaves, and window, ends with flashing window light on brown wall of motel room.
Glaze of Cathexis Trailer (1990)
05 March 1990
This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of psychological cathexis as designed by Freud in his first (and unfinished) book on the subject - "Toward a Scientific Psychology.
Sincerity I Trailer (1973)
20 May 1973
This, the first completed reel of work-in-progress, draws on autobiographical energies and images which reflect the first 20 years of my living.
Looking at Forest of Bliss Trailer (2000)
13 May 2000
Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss.
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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
I... Trailer (1995)
13 October 1995
By painting and scratching directly on celluloid strips and then duplicating each image for two or more frames, Brakhage produced a flickering cycle of abstract shapes that bespeak the restlessness of his own character and sensibility; the titles of the segments (which Brakhage also intended to function as freestanding films) further emphasize his rejection of collective thinking in favor of personal vision.
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.
RR Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
This film is a mix of landscape images seen from train windows and the patterned shapes and shifting tones of moving-visual-thought thus prompted; it was inspired by Robert Breer's FUJI.
Ephemeral Solidity Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
This is one of the most elaborately edited of all the hand-painted films of late - a Haydenesque complexity of thematic variations on a totally visual (i.
Unconscious London Strata Trailer (1981)
28 March 1981
This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.
Tortured Dust Part 3 Trailer (1984)
13 April 1984
While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
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.
Micro-Garden Trailer (2001)
13 October 2001
Red and ephemeral blue and purple plant shapes half-curled against a tan ground, which begins to flash white cracks in dried mud patterns.
Autumnal Trailer (1993)
09 October 1993
This is a film composed of two elements: (1) simple hand-painted frames and brief strips of hand-painting, and (2) strips of blank colors, which appear as overall hues or color tones filtering light itself rather than any pictured scenes.
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 .
In Consideration of Pompeii Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Since the age of 17/18, I've been haunted by the catastrophe of Pompeii – beginning with photographs (sold as pornography in high school) of the mummified lovers caught in coitus and preserved by the volcanic ash, revivified by many ghostly photographic books, but especially illuminated by Donald Sutherland's accounts and images from first hand experience of the ruins.
Window Water Baby Moving Trailer (1959)
02 August 1959
On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her.
The Stars Are Beautiful Trailer (1974)
19 November 1974
We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity.
Prelude: Dog Star Man Trailer (1962)
15 April 1962
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance.
Cannot Not Exist Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
In this non-orange negative of a hand-painted film, a series of luminously pastel shapes – often patches of color against a stark white background – are interspersed with nearly black intermittent smudges punctuating white.
Purity and After Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Two short films, the first NOT about purity itself, whatever that might be, but rather an equivalent of the process of searching for purity in the mind .
Bird Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I've had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us.
Duplicity I Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
A friend of many years' acquaintance showed me the duplicity of myself. And, midst guilt and anxiety, I came to see that duplicity often shows itself forth in semblance of sincerity.
Faust's Other: An Idyll Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
“Faust Part 2” reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from the Greek idein, "to see"); also, a journey of the id.
For Stan Trailer (2009)
07 April 2009
For Stan is a tribute film shot by Marilyn Brakhage of her husband at work with his camera in the late 1980s and early 90s – illuminating their close relationship.
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
“I tried to imagine what the last hymn to Novalis’s night had been if it was beyond language. (…) is the most elaborate hand painted film I’ve ever made”.
Sincerity IV Trailer (1979)
10 February 1979
This, the sixth film of the SINCERITY/DUPLICITY series, seems rooted in the earliest tradition of my work, Psycho-Drama, as well as in the most recent, Imagnostic, directions taken.
Panels for the Walls of Heaven Trailer (2002)
26 December 2002
The last of Brakhage's longer works. Part of the "Vancouver Island" films. "Purple flashes are followed by a curtain of purple and blues, first seemingly static and then in motion.
Mothlight Trailer (1963)
02 December 1963
Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see patterns within wings, similar to the veins in a leaf.
The Garden of Earthly Delights Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
A collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem, leaf, bud, or petal.
Thot-Fal'N Trailer (1978)
27 June 1978
This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and then that feeling of falling away from conscious thought.
Worm and Web Love Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
WORM AND WEB LOVE begins with bracketed light, a throbbing worm in the sand and sea foam mixed with grass and oceanic detritus, soon superimposed upon the dark blue-toned face of a man, then a woman (Michael McClure and Amy Evans McClure), each seen, then on, through superimpositions of drifting smoke and the back-lit stark grid of a spider's web.
Tortured Dust Part 1 Trailer (1984)
13 April 1984
While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
Pittsburgh Trailer (1959)
04 April 1959
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association to celebrate the city’s 200th anniversary, PITTSBURGH was created by a team of filmmakers that included Stan Brakhage (working under the pseudonym James Stanley), Weegee, Len Lye, and Stan Vanderbeek, and photographers W.
The Earth Song of the Cricket Trailer (1999)
26 February 1999
This is a hand-painted work whose shapes are scratched on black leader filled with varieties of color: the resultant shapes tend to suggest insect-like movements, a rub of bent-lines together suggesting the electric hind legs of the cricket, whose movements engender (thru elaborate step-printing) quick pull-backs within frames of the film, so contrived as to create visual agitron lines within the zoom-like effect whose rhythm approximates a cricket's repetitive sound.
Ascension Trailer (2002)
11 September 2002
Ascension begins by superimposing paintings that look like clouds over extremely close views of mottled paint, peculiarly intimate in their three-dimensionality.
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse Trailer (1991)
05 March 1991
Four superimposed rolls of hand-painted and bi-packed television negative imagery are edited so as to approximate the hypnagogic process whereby the optic nerves resist grotesque infusions of luminescent light.
Babylon Series #1 Trailer (1989)
10 December 1989
After a six -or seven- year study of Hammurabi's Code, original Babylonian Text and translation, I've tried to feel my way into the moving visual thought process of this ancient culture (whose numerical system is composed primarily of building materials, nails, joints and the like): this, then, is a visual music which balances the two thought processes of Structure and Nature.
The "Lost" Films Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
They are travelogues in photographic fact and in the mind. Unable to afford printing them, I had stuck them in a drawer.
Sexual Saga Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
This hand-painted step-printed film begins with "explosions" of white, yellow, orange (deepening into reds), vermillion, and darker red flame shapes.
In the Mirror of Maya Deren Trailer (2002)
15 March 2002
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
The One Romantic Venture of Edward Trailer (1956)
01 January 1956
The young man, played by Stan Brakhage, gets himself into a seriously comic mix-up by indulging in semi-sexual fantasies, and allowing the fantasies to take over.
Tortured Dust Part 2 Trailer (1984)
13 April 1984
While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
The Dante Quartet Trailer (1987)
26 March 1987
A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a white background; the speed of the changing images varies.
Passage Through: A Ritual Trailer (1990)
15 July 1990
“[Passage Through] required the most exacting editing process ever; and in the course of that work it occurred to me that I’d originally made 'The Riddle of Lumen' hoping someone would make an ‘answering’ film and entertain my visual riddle in the manner of the riddling poets of yore.
From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis Trailer (1994)
31 December 1994
“This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colors are interwoven with words (in English) from the first Hymn to the Night by the late 18th century mystic poet Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg, whose pen name was Novalis.
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg Trailer (1994)
17 February 1994
Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher.
Faustfilm: An Opera Trailer (1987)
13 March 1987
This is the realization of a 30 year old dream, a wish of the young filmmaker to film a modern Faust which finally came to a fulfillment as unpredictable and as absolute as, say, three decades of living experience.
Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse Trailer (1991)
05 April 1991
To the child mind, the transformative sacrificial power of "O, Lamb of God" is a daily manifestation - not as an adult shift-of-interest, but rather as ritual magic in which a toy train ("-of-thought," an adult might say) becomes medium of shifts-of-scene, soforth, wherein an elephantine shape transforms to a more "real" (i.
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.
Black Ice Trailer (1994)
31 December 1994
Inspired by a bad fall on a patch of black ice (that ultimately resulted in Brakhage's need for eye surgery), the filmmaker gives us something of a dreamlike descent through the fear and refractions of closed-eye vision regarding such an event.
SB Trailer (2002)
18 October 2002
In 2002 Stan Brakhage provided the Viennale festival with an exceptionally colorful, dynamic handpainted film.
The Birds Of Paradise Trailer (1999)
14 February 1999
This is a hand-painted work which involves a variety of colors applied within gouged and scratched shapes which approximate both swift shifts of bird-shape (legs, beaks and feather-spreads especially) and the Bird of Paradise flower-form as well, the former tending to metamorphize into the latter across the course of the work.
Burial Path Trailer (1978)
31 December 1978
The film begins with the image of a dead bird. The mind moves to forget, as well as to remember: this film graphs the process of forgetfulness against all oddities of remembered bird-shape.