Stan Brakhage

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew ...

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Hungarian home movies are examined by the likes of James Ellroy and Stan Brakhage for evidence of family problems.

A depiction of the creative process of hand-painting film giant, Stan Brakhage. Inspired by Monet’s paintings from Giverny, ...

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas ...

Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner’s ethnographic masterwork, Forest of ...

An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States.

BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic ...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving ...

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 ...

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and ...

This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. ...

Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally ...

“Faust Part 2” reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from the Greek idein, “to see”); also, a journey of the ...

This documentary, made seven years after the death of legendary filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye, tells Lye’s story: from being a young ...

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features ...

Stan Brakhage is a film maker whose work is shown mainly at film festivals. His work has been likened to poetry. Brakhage explains his techniques ...

The culmination of a series of autobiographical films that Brakhage made about his family (collectively known as The Book of Family), Tortured ...