Movies: Stan Brakhage
- 1976
Desert (1976)
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Says Fred Camper of the film: "Invited to Riverside, California, Brakhage, under the mistaken impression that it was a desert, was planning a desert movie when he arrived to discover an unattractive suburban landscape. So he decided to make, and shoo...
- 2001
Micro Garden (2001)
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Red and ephemeral blue and purple plant shapes half-curled against a tan ground, which begins to flash white cracks in dried mud patterns. A flush of watery blues (in this hand-painted step-printed film) brightens the plant-skein into a veriety (sic)...
- 2002
Seasons... (2002)
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Brakhage's hand carvings directly into the film emulsions are illuminated and textured by Solomon's lighting and optical printing....
- 1962
Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
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A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Imag...
- 1993
Ephemeral Solidity (1993)
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This is one of the most elaborately edited of all the hand-painted films of late - a Haydenesque complexity of thematic variations on a totally visual (i.e., un-musical) theme. This film is composed of 35mm hand-painted images reduced to 16mm film, ...
- 2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002)
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Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s....
- 1963
Dog Star Man: Part I (1963)
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From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow. He carries an ax, and he's accompanied by a dog. His labors continue. There is no soundtrack. Images rush past - wate...
- 1966
Song 17 (1966)
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SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969)....
- 2002
Ascension (2002)
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A film by experimantal filmmaker Stan Brakhage....
- 1994
The Mammals of Victoria (1994)
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The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes step-printed hand-painting, abstractions composed of distorted (jammed) TV shapes in shades of blue w...
- 1974
The Stars Are Beautiful (1974)
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We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity. A dog joins the hens a...
- 1968
Lovemaking (1968)
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A film about the naturalness of sexuality. Its four sequences feature heterosexual and homosexual lovemaking, dogs copulating, and naked childen at play....
- 1964
Song 2 (1964)
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SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969)....
- 2002
Vakvagany (2002)
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Hungarian home movies are examined by the likes of James Ellroy and Stan Brakhage for evidence of family problems....
- 1966
Song 18 (1966)
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SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969)....
- 1989
Watunna (1989)
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The creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Orinoco region of Venezuela provide a transparent look at the poetic process by which human beings construct meaning from their experience. Narrated by Stan Brakhage. Music and sound by Bruce Odland....
- 1964
Song 6 (1964)
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SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969)....
- 1985
Jane (1985)
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Someone said to me, of this film, that it was really about light; but Jane (who takes it as a portrait – i. e., sees herself in it) said: You gave me the moon and seven stars... and I signed this film, simply, Stan....
- 1965
Song 12 (1965)
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SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969)....
- 1995
In Consideration of Pompeii (1995)
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Devastation in two parts....