Direction: Stan Brakhage
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Stan Brakhage. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 184
Visions in Meditation
1990 · Documentary · 75 min. · United States
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...
8.4
34 votes
8.4
34 votes
Anticipation of the Night
1958 · Documentary · 42 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
8.0
104 votes
8.0
104 votes
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
1967 · Documentary · 30 min. · United States
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...
7.7
27 votes
7.7
27 votes
Dog Star Man
1964 · Documentary · 78 min. · United States
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.
7.7
25 votes
7.7
25 votes
23rd Psalm Branch: Part I
1967 · Documentary · 33 min. · United States
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...
7.6
35 votes
7.6
35 votes
Chartres Series (S)
1994 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States
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...
7.6
22 votes
7.6
22 votes
The Mammals of Victoria
1994 · Documentary · 34 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
7.6
34 votes
7.6
34 votes
Seasons... (S)
2002 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage · Phil Solomon
7.6
38 votes
7.6
38 votes
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave (S)
1990 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
7.5
63 votes
7.5
63 votes
7.5
35 votes
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence (S)
1990 · Documentary · 18 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
7.5
50 votes
7.5
50 votes
Star Garden (S)
1974 · Documentary · 21 min. · United States
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”.
7.5
105 votes
7.5
105 votes
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde (S)
1989 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
7.3
60 votes
7.3
60 votes
Scenes from Under Childhood #1 (S)
1967 · Documentary · 25 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
7.3
77 votes
7.3
77 votes
Visions in Meditation #1 (S)
1989 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
7.3
66 votes
7.3
66 votes
The Riddle of Lumen (S)
1972 · Documentary · 14 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
Plot “The Riddle of Lumen” presents an evenly paced sequence of images, which seem to follow an elusive logic.
7.3
57 votes
7.3
57 votes
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm (S)
1997 · Documentary · 18 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
7.3
36 votes
7.3
36 votes
Window Water Baby Moving (S)
1959 · Documentary · 13 min. · United States
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,...
7.2
441 votes
7.2
441 votes
7.2
65 votes
I... Dreaming (S)
1988 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States
Direction Stan Brakhage
Plot Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally joined by a chorus, sings phrases of...
7.2
80 votes
7.2
80 votes