Stan Brakhage

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 ...

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

“Hot” by-play of reds-greens-yellows in black, blurred, finally, as the color shapes are shifted violently from side to side, finally ...

SELF SONG documents a body besieged by cancer. The amber glow of flesh suggests both victory and submission to death. Blackness surrounds the ...

Prelude 20 begins with pale washes of hand-painted tones overlaid eventually by sharp forms, a kind of sliced color becoming more and more smeared.

Prelude 21 is most characterized by the double-time of single-frame printing of extremely thick swatches of multiple colors as if in a furiously ...

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 ...

Dedicated to Doug Edwards. All titles dominate linguistically; in that sense, any film would be better left unnamed. This little hand-painted ...

Out of the vagueries of sometime beseeming repetitive light patterns, and the delicately variable rhythms of thought process, the imagination of ...

Series of narrative events, stories if you like, but so clustered visually as to have a center so to speak, slightly off center.

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. “S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the ...