Movies: Stan Brakhage

Three TV "concretes."...

This work is in five reels (numbered, but called "reels" so that they don't take on the connotations of "Parts" - thus each simply a part of the "trail" of colored scratches, white scratches ((on black & white leader) which suggest, to me, a passage)...

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 white robed army of martyrs' of the Te Deum, as well as Albicare/to be white or Albicore out of the Portuguese (or Arabic orig...

Super-8 film by Stan Brakhage. “brief songs of light and line”...

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 1991, the second through sixth in 1992, seven and eight in '93, and the ninth in '92....

Stan Brakhage shows his new films at MoMA in New York. Before that, he said hello to me, Jonas Mekas, Birgit, the Anthology team and others. Later, we return home by metro....

Begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with a candle wick burning, circled by boiling gold flecks....

Begins with raccoon in a rose light, ends with fading face of child....

Begins with green tiled bathroom ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman....

Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city....

Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. With interest in mycology, Haertling made mushroom spore prints directly onto clear 16mm film. A 7.25-second loop was pas...

A very personal lecture on filmmaker and friend Jim Davis....

Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and scratch-homages to Jerome Hill....

This film was originally photographed in 1970 in regular 8mm. It was, a decade later, blown up to 16mm so that it could join the rest of the Sexual Meditation series....

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. —SB...

“Films made by the five Brakhage children; Brakhage arranged them in this form but did not edit them.” –Robert Haller...

Phos equals light, but then I did also want that word within the title which would designate place, as within the nationalities of "the fabulous" - a specific country of the imagination with tangible shores, etc. The film adheres strictly to the ordi...