Cast: Stan Brakhage

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Timothy Leary · Ed Emshwiller · Jack Smith · Mario Montez

Plot Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Jane Brakhage · Myrrena Brakhage · Stan Brakhage

Plot On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face,...

Direction Martina Kudlácek

Cast Miriam Arsham · Stan Brakhage · Chao Li Chi · Rita Christiani

Plot Film about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Bearthm Brakhage · Crystal Brakhage · Jane Brakhage · Myrrena Brakhage

Plot 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...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Jane Brakhage · Stan Brakhage

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Stan Brakhage

Plot A man, accompanied by a dog, struggles through snow on a mountain side. We see film stock blister; drawn square shapes appear. Then, we see an infant's face. The images...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Jane Brakhage · Stan Brakhage

Plot 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,...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Jane Brakhage · Stan Brakhage

Plot A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant is born. We see a lactating nipple. Images include a...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Jane Brakhage · Stan Brakhage

Plot Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Jane Brakhage · Stan Brakhage

Plot Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, a man and a woman's, close up, nude - patches of skin, wisps of hair,...

Direction Pip Chodorov

Cast Stan Brakhage · Robert Breer · Pip Chodorov · Stephan Chodorov

Plot A fantastic opportunity to discover experimental film on the big screen, from its avant garde beginnings in Europe after WW1 to some of the US filmmakers that it inspired who...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Jane Brakhage · Stan Brakhage

Plot 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...

Direction Arnold Gassan

Cast Stan Brakhage

Plot "Still photographer Arnold Gassan made this sensitive portrait of Stan Brakhage not long after the avant-garde icon completed his seminal DOG STAR MAN cycle. The film finds Brakhage mellowed but...

Direction Benjamin Meade

Cast William S. Burroughs · Stan Brakhage · Ray Harryhausen · Guy Maddin

Plot This is a compilation of experimental, documentary, and shorts films by award winning filmmaker Benjamin Meade. Most this is never before seen footage and ranges from political, educational, to absurd....

Direction Stan Brakhage · Mary Beth Reed

Cast Stan Brakhage

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Stan Brakhage · Takahiko Iimura · Jonas Mekas · Jack Smith

Plot Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each portrait, Iimura attempts to copy the styles...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Stan Brakhage · Jane Brakhage

Plot Stan Brakhage, central figure in US avant-garde cinema, lived from the early sixties in Rollinsville, Colorado, with his wife and children, isolated in the mountains. There, he developed a highly...

Direction Martina Kudlácek

Cast Marie Menken · Kenneth Anger · Stan Brakhage · Peter Kubelka

Plot A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

Direction Larry Jordan

Cast Stan Brakhage · Yvonne Fair

Plot Lawrence Jordan shot TRUMPIT in the basement of a house on Baker Street in San Francisco that he shared with Stan Brakhage in the mid-1950s. Brakhage himself stars in the...

Direction Marilyn Brakhage

Cast Stan Brakhage

Plot Stan Barkhage filming in nature.