Screenplay: Stan Brakhage

Direction Stan Brakhage

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

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot “The Riddle of Lumen” presents an evenly paced sequence of images, which seem to follow an elusive logic.

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

Direction Stan Brakhage

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

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 · Phil Solomon

Plot This is a hand-painted step-printed collaboration between Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage.

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray.

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...