Stan Brakhage Movies

Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray. "'All that is is...

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...

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set...

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

A series of meditations on Egyptian hieroglyphs – designations (as I finally saw them) of nurturing godheads.

Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door...

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set...

"This is a portrait of that man I choose to call the greatest I've known: Clancy, whom the fates surnamed Sheey, personifies for me that which is...

Persian Series #13 is a series of extremely dark images, mostly in purples, greens, and fiery red-orange-yellows, shifting one to another in displays...

Here are a couple films from the mid-'60s, given to Gordon Rosenblum at the time, which surfaced this year needing preservation. I don't know what to...

This film seems to be lost, possibly left at KQED in San Francisco. Morton Subotnick has feelers out trying to find it, but no luck yet. - Mark...

Begins with back of airplane seat, ends with horizontal streaks of bold light.

“I tried to imagine what the last hymn to Novalis’s night had been if it was beyond language. (…) is the most elaborate hand...

The first film of mine which is so very much there where it's at THAT it deserves visual symbol as title and no further explanation from me at/et?...

The "Dynamo theories" of Henry Adams portrayed first person/sexual vision: an American businessman as lord of all he surveys.

Portrait of Jesse Collins: a daydream nightmare in the surrealist tradition.

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

A film about the naturalness of sexuality. Its four sequences feature heterosexual and homosexual lovemaking, dogs copulating, and naked childen at...

A meat enigma spoken in eternal language of director, con man, and magician. It pits an actor against an unseen audience.

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set...