Stan Brakhage

“After wishing for years to be given the opportunity of filming some of the more “mystical” occupations of our Times – which the average ...

Persian Series #17 is a series of quite distinct globules of paint brilliantly colored and shifting as if vertically in the plane (as different ...

Persian Series #15 is a rapid shift of patterns black & white playing off against muted coils of color.

Pale petal and stem-like shapes counter punted rhythmically by an even paler “background” of truly ephemeral of truly ephemeral ...

Very pale, thin, hieroglyphic pinks, greens and blues in a white space which is thickened over by ribbed mashes of these colors which ...

Persian Series #6 begins with what appears to be dried red and yellow rose petals, suddenly shot-thru with blue which causes a shift to violets ...

Sharp edged “chunks” of color set in black, straight, often multicolored, lines piercing shapes, imprisoning them, until they are ...

“Hot” by-play of reds-greens-yellows in black, blurred, finally, as the color shapes are shifted violently from side to side, finally ...

“Twigs” of color in space, and pure white “ghosts” of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and ...

This is a photographed filmic searching-for-whales, the camerawork and editing attempting to approximate something of the rubbing up against ...

This meditation takes its visual imperatives from the occasion of Mesa Verde.

The film is officially untitled, but is referred to by the dedication that appears in place of a title card. It is dedicated to Marilyn Brakhage, ...

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

Experimental

A hand-painted and photographically step-printed film, which exhibits variably shaped small areas of color (in a dark field) that explode into ...

This is a film composed of two elements: (1) simple hand-painted frames and brief strips of hand-painting, and (2) strips of blank colors, which ...

Peripheral envisionment of daily life as the mind has it – i.e., a terrifying ecstasy of (hand-painted) synapting nerve ends back-firing ...

This is a hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity-of-motion, and ...

A short film by Stan Brakhage.

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, ...

Commingled Containers is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) ...

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift ...

Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam ...

Abstract film.

“The Riddle of Lumen” presents an evenly paced sequence of images, which seem to follow an elusive logic. As in “Zorns Lemma” the viewer is ...

This film by Stan Brakhage investigates the process of memory and thought by melting a series of images and a field of color. The ...

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.

A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in ...

After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid ...