Stan Brakhage Movie Trailers
Page 7/8
Showing results: 361-420 of 430
Duplicity II Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
This, the second film of the continuing autobiographical Duplicity series, is composed of superimpositions much as the mind "dupes" remembered experience into some semblance of, say, composed surety rather than imbalanced accuracy - as thought may even warp "scene" into symmetry, or "face" into multitudinous mask.
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.
Sincerity V Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
This, then, finishes eleven years of editing drawing on 30-some years of photography. I will surely work autobiographically again, but the modes of SINCERITY and DUPLICITY seem completed with this film which on the one hand is as simple in its integrity-of-light as those follow-the-ball "sing-along" early silent movies and on the other as complicated as teen-age metamorphosis.
For Life, Against the War Trailer (1967)
30 January 1967
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War.
Reality's Invisible Trailer (1972)
19 April 1972
Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton would later serve as a cinematographer on Gardner’s 1981 documentary Deep Hearts, among others).
A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
"In his description for A CHILD'S GARDEN, Brakhage quotes from poets Ronald Johnson and Charles Olson (and cites Johnson's poem "Beam 29" as inspiration).
Stan's Window & Work in Progress Trailer (2003)
23 March 2003
Stan’s Window: This companion to Marilyn's Window was Brakhage housebound when he made this film. Work in Progress contains some of the last rolls he ever photographed.
Cloud Chamber Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually give way to pale suggestions of pastel colors.
The Dark Tower Trailer (1999)
16 February 1999
This hand-painted, step-printed film begins with streaks of light and vibrantly colored forms. There appears, frame center, the tapered shape of a tower-- An imposing silhouette against the backdrop of the flaring sky.
The Aerodyne Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain, "Caswallon the Headhunter.
The Shores of Phos: A Fable Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Phos equals light, but then I did also want that word within the title which would designate place, as within the nationalities of "the fabulous" - a specific country of the imagination with tangible shores, etc.
Dog Star Man: Part II Trailer (1964)
06 November 1964
A man, accompanied by a dog, struggles through snow on a mountain side. We see film stock blister; drawn square shapes appear.
American 30s Song Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
“Begins with a portrait of the filmmaker’s father, moves through imagery of various forms of transportation (cars, boats, trains, and planes), and concludes with a ‘Postlude’ in which filmmaker Jerome Hill deplanes from a jet.
“He was born, he suffered, he died.” Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
"The quote is Joseph Conrad answering a critic who found his books too long. Conrad replied that he could write a novel on the inside of a match-book cover, thus (as above), but that he "preferred to elaborate.
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.
Tortured Dust Trailer (1984)
13 April 1984
The culmination of a series of autobiographical films that Brakhage made about his family (collectively known as The Book of Family), Tortured Dust was shot as the filmmaker's children from his first marriage were beginning to leave the house, and edited during Brakhage and his first wife Jane's impending separation.
Egyptian Series Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
A series of meditations on Egyptian hieroglyphs – designations (as I finally saw them) of nurturing godheads.
Study in Color and Black and White Trailer (1993)
07 November 1993
A hand-painted and photographically step-printed film, which exhibits variably shaped small areas of color (in a dark field) that explode into full frames of textured color interwoven with white scratch patterns that create a sense of interior depth and three-dimensional movement.
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.
Eye Myth Trailer (1967)
28 August 1967
After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid change in the images.
I Take These Truths Trailer (1995)
13 October 1995
This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should constitute a purely visual "self-evident" (as prompted by the title).
Short Films 1976 Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
Four films verging on portraiture, converging to make a drama for all seasons, starring: Jane Brakhage as The Dreamer; Bob Benson as The Magnificent Stranger; Omar Beagle as The Snow Plow Man; and Jimmy Ryan Morris as The Poet and as Doc Holliday.
Lovesong 3 Trailer (2001)
01 March 2001
Three qualities of hand- painted imagery inter-weave throughout this film: (1) a mash of thick lines delineating colored shapes, (2) thin black lines, like drawings, which most suggest recognizable body-parts, and (3) globs of pure color at inter-play with each other.
The Process Trailer (1972)
10 November 1972
This film by Stan Brakhage investigates the process of memory and thought by melting a series of images and a field of color.
Blue Moses Trailer (1962)
31 December 1962
One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against an unseen audience.
Pasht Trailer (1966)
04 February 1966
In honor of the cat, so named, and the goddess of all cats which she was named after. - CAT Film Fesl
Desistfilm Trailer (1954)
01 January 1954
Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string.
My Mountain: Song 27 Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Image-by-image study of the Arapaho summit, in all seasons for two years; the clouds and the climate that carve this place in the landscape (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
Lovesong 4 Trailer (2001)
01 April 2001
A natural companion piece to Lovesong 3, this (also hand-painted) work counterbalances the rhythmic irregularities and, one might say, temporal despairs with a steadiness of beat, creating an absolute progression of formal feeling and meaning.
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” Trailer (1973)
26 March 1973
During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers.
The Governor Trailer (1977)
20 October 1977
"On July 4, 1976 I and my camera toured the state of Colorado with governor Richard D. Lamm, as he traveled in parades with his children, appeared at dinners, lectured, etc.
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: .
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
Photographing near Taos, New Mexico, where D.H. Lawrence lived, and in the room in which his ashes may be entombed, Brakhage also cites a statement of the writer's in connection with the film: "There must be mutation swifter than iridescence, haste, not rest, come-and-go, not fixity, inconclusiveness, immediacy, the quality of life itself, without denouement or close.
Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein Trailer (1965)
04 September 1965
BLUE WHITE, "an intonation of child birth"; BLOOD'S TONE, "a golden nursing film"; VEIN, "a film of baby Buddha masturbation.
Interpolations 1-5 Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
"The full 35-millimeter frame allows for more detail and diversity than Brakhage's customary narrower gauges.
Shockingly Hot Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
This little hand-painted film was over-a-year in the making, and absolutely dependent upon a quality of "broad-stroke" in the painting which I think only children really capable of achieving, at least insofar as such stroke can approximate flame.
Lovesong 2 Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
LOVESONG 2 is a rapid recapitulation of the tactics of Lovesong, without the multiple rhythms of variable step-printing: it is a straight frame-to-frame 'run-through' of similar (albeit newly painted) images of love-making.
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.
Legendary Epics Yarns and Fables Part 2: Stan Brakhage Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
This film is a limited portrait of Stan Brakhage. The subject attempts to describe the experience that he is involved in by means of immediately responding to the aural and visual stimuli which surround and affect him.
Jesus Trilogy and Coda Trailer (2000)
22 November 2000
The Jesus Trilogy and Coda is composed of the four following parts: (1) IN JESUS NAME presents an almost continuous fluttering movement midst the complexity of multiple small shapes in mostly autumnal colors, like unto a wind moving through fall leaves.
Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander Trailer (1986)
03 January 1986
At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain, "Caswallon the Headhunter.
Brakhage on Brakhage Trailer (2025)
14 September 2025
Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century.
The Boy and the Sea Trailer (1953)
01 January 1953
Lost film directed by Stan Brakhage. Possibly never existed. "I don’t think the film was ever finished or even edited.
Roman Numeral: VIII Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
This is the most formal of all these works. - S.B.
Window Suite of Children's Songs Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
“Films made by the five Brakhage children; Brakhage arranged them in this form but did not edit them.
Faust 3: Candida Albacore Trailer (1988)
02 January 1988
Just as the word Idyll of Faust's Part 2 is rooted in the Greek idein/to see, so is "candida" in candidatus, as used in the white robed army of martyrs' of the Te Deum, as well as Albicare/to be white or Albicore out of the Portuguese (or Arabic origin) designating a kind of tunny (or white man): thus, Faust's 3 is white/white as well as (from sugar's white) candy, and fish: it is the modern Walpurgisnacht to Faust, but the day-dream of his Emily: it exists that a woman has, finally, something of her ritual included in the myth of Faust.
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.
The Peaceable Kingdom Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
This film, one of the most perfect ever given to me to make, was inspired by the series of paintings of the same title by Edward Hicks.
Roman Numeral: VII Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
What CAN one say? – that won’t limit by language the complexity of moving visual thinking?… the skein of pattern that seeks to make its own language.
Sluice Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
It is a wooden silver-retrieving sluice, thus light-catch awash with something like "cheek and jowl clippings of Argentine bulls" (as Hollis Frampton reminds us) and many chemical residues of earth.
Derealization Trailer (2025)
02 September 2025
A schizophrenic high school student makes his way through a psychotic episode
Lovesong 5 & 6 Trailer (2001)
01 May 2001
A hand-painted work beginning with a thicket of curled black lines over flesh tones shaping briefly into sex organs.
Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting Trailer (2002)
12 December 2002
This afternoon summer scene is very much how he worked (when painting directly on film) in the last �
As Is Was Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was teaching at the time.
Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow Trailer (2008)
06 December 2008
In 1958 R. Igor Gamow first met Jane Brakhage. Peter Garrity, in his new documentary film, "Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow" follows their life long friendship and, of course, the resulting deep friendships of their two extended families.
Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects Trailer (1977)
08 October 1977
This begins the fourth chapter of The Book of Film and entertains directly the considerations of chapter two (THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA, THE MACHINE OF EDEN, and THE ANIMALS OF EDEN AND AFTER).
Brakhage by Mothlight Trailer (2016)
28 February 2016
"Stan Brakhage’s films explode with sensual beauty: bursts of color heightened by extreme contrasts in hue and shape and by stunning depth effects; more monochromatic passages of nonetheless equal intensity that sensitize one to the glories of tiny differences; nearly flat, slowly changing fields of color that wave like blankets in the wind, only to be interrupted by a cut that opens up a vast space; rapid explosions of paint that seem just on the cusp of suggesting a nameable object.
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
A thin oval of green-tinged light in thick darkness persists, then gradually descends below the bottom of the frame and, after a pause, rises again to its original position.
Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass) Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Begins with green tiled bathroom ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman. Has been accidentally referred to as "Jane's Memory" in some writing.