Stan Brakhage

This hand-painted, step-printed film begins with streaks of light and vibrantly colored forms. There appears, frame center, the tapered shape of ...

This hand-painted, elaborately step-printed film begins with what appears to be torn fragments of thick parchment erupting upward, out of which ...

“The third and shortest section reintroduces camera-derived imagery and, minimal as it may be (sunlight shimmering on water, seagull ...

This work is in five reels (numbered, but called “reels” so that they don’t take on the connotations of “Parts” ...

Reel #5 of (…) is composed of scratch-imagery edited to music by James Tenney. The music starts accompanied only by black leader: then ...

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

This film, a combination of hand-painting and photography, is a fulsome exposition of the themes of DOG STAR MAN. In that early epic I had ...

This, painted in the hospital while recovering from cancer surgery in 1996, is – it seems to me – very related to De Kooning’s ...

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 ...

Comingled Containers is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage. “This ‘return to photography’ (after several years of only ...

This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are ...

Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light ...

Singly-printed multi-colored watery “blobs” and “feathery” streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds ...

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns ...

…again, is “plein-aire abstraction” as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned ...

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

This little hand-painted film was over-a-year in the making, and absolutely dependent upon a quality of “broad-stroke” in the ...

Singly-printed criss-crosses of molten “brush”-(hard-edge)-strokes of black over pebbled yellow, ending finally on an intermix of all ...

Prelude 24 returns to the tempo of single-frame printing. Its shapes and forms are composed of nearly black torques of ink, flickering with white ...

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 ...

Prelude 19 begins with hand-painted swatches of variable colors encompassed eventually by vertical strokes of reds and blues, followed by sudden ...

Prelude 22 is a singly-printed hand-painted thick black and gold swatches of color which evolve into forms that are horizontally and vertically ...

Singly-printed evolution from a deep blue-blackness of hard-edge twisting and sweeping bars and deep black swirls of dry-cracked and electrically ...

Double-printed thinnest possible lines and multiple dots of pale color interwoven with sweeps of linear tones in swiftly transversing motion, all ...

Prelude 23 is doubly-printed hand-painted frames causing an effect almost as if wisps of tone were tinting the film intercut with sharp thin ...

This hand-painted step-printed film begins with “explosions” of white, yellow, orange (deepening into reds), vermillion, and darker ...

A hand-painted double-frame printed film which begins with textures reminiscent of a gray shag rug that is fretted by green and golden ...

Doubly-printed striations of “brush-strokes” through multicolored “rock” forms dissolving then to blackened ...

BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored ...

This is a hand-painted step-printed film which begins with slow dissolves of what appear to be decaying leaves, crumpled browns and golds and ...