Stan Brakhage

Resurrectus Est is a hand painted film which suggests, from the first, a spread of fragments of plants and flowers, individual petals and bits of ...

Brakhage’s frame-by-frame hand carvings and etchings directly into the film emulsion, sometimes photographically combined with paint, are ...

Ascension begins by superimposing paintings that look like clouds over extremely close views of mottled paint, peculiarly intimate in their ...

Persian Series #15 is a rapid shift of patterns black & white playing off against muted coils of color.

Persian Series #14 is composed of muted color-shapes shifting variably in juxtaposition and contrast with high-contrast black & white ...

Persian Series #16 is an even more exaggerated contrast of color and black-and-white patterning.

Persian Series #13 is a series of extremely dark images, mostly in purples, greens, and fiery red-orange-yellows, shifting one to another in ...

Persian Series #18 is almost calligraphic in its overlays of dark (occasionally colored) glyphs backed by brilliant color motifs.

Red and ephemeral blue and purple plant shapes half-curled against a tan ground, which begins to flash white cracks in dried mud patterns. A ...

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

This hand-painted work presents the semblance of a dark brown wall, ripped open and pocked with yellowed visions of rooms and other interiors, ...

A natural companion piece to Lovesong 3, this (also hand-painted) work counterbalances the rhythmic irregularities and, one might say, temporal ...

This lush, sensuous film is based on paintings of unusual variety and intricacy. Brakhage’s desire to include all the complexities of ...

The second, of these companion films (interspersed by a “Technicolor+ countdown”) introduces The Movies (Narrative Dramatic Scenes ...

LOVESONG 2 is a rapid recapitulation of the tactics of Lovesong, without the multiple rhythms of variable step-printing: it is a straight ...

This film is hand-painted and is essentially about the interplay between hypnagogic vision and words, the effect of the one upon the other, the ...

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 ...

The Jesus Trilogy and Coda is composed of the four following parts: (1) IN JESUS NAME presents an almost continuous fluttering movement midst the ...

Persian Series #11 begins with a “window” of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating ...

Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden ...

Very pale, thin, hieroglyphic pinks, greens and blues in a white space which is thickened over by ribbed mashes of these colors which ...

Sharp edged “chunks” of color set in black, straight, often multicolored, lines piercing shapes, imprisoning them, until they are ...

This film of single-strand photography begins with the “fire” of reflective light on water and on the barest inferences of a ship. ...

This film begins with points of light defining a dark space out of which a female dancer (Vivienne Palmer) emerges dressed in a semi-transparent ...

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) ...

This is a hand-painted work whose shapes are scratched on black leader filled with varieties of color: the resultant shapes tend to suggest ...

This is a hand-painted work which involves a variety of colors applied within gouged and scratched shapes which approximate both swift shifts of ...

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 ...

This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which ...

CRICKET REQUIEM is a hand-painted and elaborately step-printed film which juxtaposes bent, sometimes saw-tooth, scratch shapes multiply colored ...