Stan Brakhage

Four superimposed rolls of hand-painted and bi-packed television negative imagery are edited so as to approximate the hypnagogic process whereby ...

“In his description for A CHILD’S GARDEN, Brakhage quotes from poets Ronald Johnson and Charles Olson (and cites Johnson’s poem ...

A nostalgic envisionment of city living – the potential shards of memory seen as if always on the verge of cutting the mind to pieces.

“[Passage Through] required the most exacting editing process ever; and in the course of that work it occurred to me that I’d originally made ...

“Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the ...

This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I’m able) the hypnagogic ...

Photographing near Taos, New Mexico, where D.H. Lawrence lived, and in the room in which his ashes may be entombed, Brakhage also cites a ...

As a poem might be said to contain the night through a weave of words, so have I in this film attempted such a container with warp and woof of ...

Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato’s Cave and then responds to the philosopher’s notion of ...

This is an architectural garden of the variably brash rock-solid liquid-encompassing, but always imitative, human mind as it processes the given ...

After a six -or seven- year study of Hammurabi’s Code, original Babylonian Text and translation, I’ve tried to feel my way into the ...

Music by Rick Corrigan. This is the imaged thought process of young Faust escaping the unbearable pictures of his broken romantic idyll, mentally ...

Visiting the famous Anasazi cliff dwellings in Colorado, abandoned about 1275, Brakhage thought, “There is terror here.” And so he ...

This is a film inspired by Gertrude Stein’s “Stanzas In Meditation”, in which the filmmaker has edited a meditative series of ...

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

Just as the word Idyll of Faust’s Part 2 is rooted in the Greek idein/to see, so is “candida” in candidatus, as used in the ...

This stream-of-consciousness could be nothing less than pathway of the soul, as images of Marilyn’s window are remembered from inside-out, ...

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

Another of Brakhage’s works of “moving visual thinking,” Rage Net reminds one of the vibrant pioneering experiments of European animators of the 1920s.

This is one of those “little films” which is pure “cine poem” in the sense that it is picture, but also given over to ...

A visual representation, in four parts, of one man’s internalization of “The Divine Comedy.” Hell is a series of multicolored ...

Hand-painted — closed-eye — film envisioning optic feedback in response to sound. Collaborative soundtrack compiled by Joel Haertling with sound ...

This is the realization of a 30 year old dream, a wish of the young filmmaker to film a modern Faust which finally came to a fulfillment as ...

Refracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl. There’s a dog, a ...

A multiple-superimposition hand-painted visual symphony of animal life of earth. THE LOOM might be compared to musical quartet-form (as there are ...

At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage’s story of Caesar’s invasion of ...

Part two of the Caswallon Trilogy, and the only film in the group to also be printed as a stand-alone. Features sound.

“Firstly, I revealed in salutary confession the secret filth of my misdeed, which had long been festering in stagnant silence; and I made ...

At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage’s story of Caesar’s invasion of ...

Part of Three Hand-Painted Films, Night Music (originally painted on IMAX) attempts to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when ...