Cinematography: Stan Brakhage

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot After a difficult personal period for the filmmaker, Brakhage's marriage to his second wife Marilyn Jull and the couple's subsequent travels around the US and Canada inspired this series of...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in Colorado. He sets up a...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot A lyrical film following a cycle of seasons as well as the stretch of a single day as a man and his dog slowly ascend a mountain.

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot In this haunting but lyrical meditation on war, Brakhage intercuts 8-mm footage of Colorado with imagery from WWII newsreels. He responds to the violence and nightmare of war by painting...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot "Marilyn's sister died; and I, who could not attend the funeral, sat down alone and began painting on film one day, this death in mind... Chartres in mind. Eight months...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot The sun makes its way across the screen to portray “one of those days I would not trade for anything under heaven”.

Direction Stan Brakhage

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 Stan Brakhage

Plot Unconscious London Strata is one of Stan Brakhage's gloriously abstract studies of light and color, with virtually no grounding in concrete forms.

Direction Stan Brakhage

Direction Stan Brakhage

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

Plot Forensic pathologists perform autopsies. The first two consist of examination, measurement, and checking muscles. The remaining ones involve cutting away bone to expose and examine internal organs, peeling back skin...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot A film by Stan Brakhage about the forgetfulness and death. Burial Path grows affecting in its attempt to remember flight for a newly dead bird.

Direction Stan Brakhage · Joseph Cornell

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Robert Creeley · Michael McClure

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Kenneth Anger

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast Jane Brakhage · Stan Brakhage