Stan Brakhage

Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their “weave” with ...

…as removed as possible from any recognition of either exterior scene of interior feedback phenomena. It is, in its ineffability, as close ...

Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually ...

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 ...

“concrescence, principle of As a term from A.N. Whitehead’s metaphysics refers to the drive things possess that impel them to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

By painting and scratching directly on celluloid strips and then duplicating each image for two or more frames, Brakhage produced a flickering ...

Part 2 of Trilogy. Dedicated to Phil Solomon. The “Truths” of this film, which the title prompts, are slightly recognizable patterns ...

They are travelogues in photographic fact and in the mind. Unable to afford printing them, I had stuck them in a drawer. The first was made in ...

Since the age of 17/18, I’ve been haunted by the catastrophe of Pompeii – beginning with photographs (sold as pornography in high school) ...

This film is an elaborately hand-painted step-printed work composed primarily of luminescent greens and blues in constantly shifting symmetrical ...

This hand-painted, step-printed film begins with several seconds of blank white (interrupted by red and brief electric yellow) and then proceeds ...

This film is a series of five little hand-painted and elaborately step-printed sections which are individually titled but so inter-related ...

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 ...

“This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colors are interwoven with words (in English) from the first Hymn to the ...