Stan Brakhage filmography
Over the course of more than five decades, the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced a large body of work. All films in the filmography are assumed to be silent, in color, and are meant to be shown at 24 frames per second, unless otherwise noted. The Brakhage films, comprising his edited originals, intermediate elements, and other original material, are housed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive, where a long-term project is underway to preserve and restore his entire film output.
Fifty-six of these films are available on DVD (as two separate volumes) and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.[1]
1950s
Notes
- During the late 1950s, Brakhage worked on several industrial films, many of them for the city of Pittsburgh.[2]
Year | Title | Format | Length | Notes |
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1952 | Interim | 16 mm | 25+1⁄2 minutes | Black-and-white; features music by James Tenney |
1953 | The Boy and the Sea | 16 mm | 2 minutes | Black-and-white |
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection | 16 mm | 29 minutes | Black-and-white | |
1954 | Desistfilm | 16 mm | 7 minutes | Black-and-white, sound |
The Extraordinary Child | 16 mm | 13 minutes | Black-and-white | |
The Way to Shadow Garden | 16 mm | 11+1⁄2 minutes | Black-and-white, sound | |
1955 | In Between | 16 mm | 10+1⁄2 minutes | First color film; features music by John Cage |
Reflections on Black | 16 mm | 12 minutes | Black-and-white, sound | |
Untitled film of Geoffrey Holder’s Wedding[2] | 16 mm | Unknown | Co-directed with Larry Jordan | |
The Wonder Ring | 16 mm | 6 minutes | ||
1955–1956 | Gnir Rednow | 16 mm | 6 minutes | Co-directed with Joseph Cornell |
Centuries of June | 16 mm | 6 minutes | Co-directed with Joseph Cornell; also known as Tower House, Bolts of Melody, Portrait of June, and June[2] | |
1956 | Flesh of Morning | 16 mm | 22 minutes | Black-and-white, sound; revised by Brakhage in 1986[2] |
Nightcats | 16 mm | 8 minutes | ||
Zone Moment | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
1957 | Daybreak and White Eye | 16 mm | 8 minutes | Black-and-white, sound |
Loving | 16 mm | 5 minutes | ||
1958 | Anticipation of the Night | 16 mm | 40 minutes | |
1959 | Cat's Cradle | 16 mm | 6 minutes | |
Sirius Remembered | 16 mm | 11 minutes | ||
Wedlock House: An Intercourse | 16 mm | 11 minutes | Black-and-white | |
Window Water Baby Moving | 16 mm | 12 minutes |
1960s
Year | Title | Format | Length | Notes |
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1960 | Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself | 16 mm | 42 minutes | Adaptation of Mr. Tompkins book by George Gamow |
The Dead | 16 mm | 11 minutes | ||
1961 | Thigh Line Lyre Triangular | 16 mm | 6 minutes | |
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie | 16 mm | 4 minutes | ||
Dog Star Man: Prelude | 16 mm | 25 minutes | Part of Dog Star Man cycle | |
1962 | Blue Moses | 16 mm | 10 minutes | Black-and-white, sound |
Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender | 16 mm | 2 minutes | Black-and-white, sound | |
1962–1963 | Sartre's Nausea | 16 mm | 4 minutes | Black-and-white; title is a reference to Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre |
1962 | Dog Star Man: Part 1 | 16 mm | 31 minutes | Part of Dog Star Man cycle |
1963 | Mothlight | 16 mm | 3 minutes | |
Oh Life, A Woe Story, The A-Test News | 16 mm | 6 minutes | Black-and-white | |
Dog Star Man: Part 2 | 16 mm | 6 minutes | Part of Dog Star Man cycle | |
1964 | Dog Star Man: Part 3 | 16 mm | 8 minutes | Part of Dog Star Man cycle |
Dog Star Man: Part 4 | 16 mm | 6 minutes | Part of Dog Star Man cycle | |
Song 1 | 8 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 2 & Song 3 | 8 mm | 4+1⁄2 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 4 | 8 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 5 | 8 mm | 4+1⁄2 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 6 & Song 7 | 8 mm | 4+1⁄2 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 8 | 8 mm | 3+1⁄2 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
1965 | The Art of Vision | 16 mm | 270 minutes | Expanded version of the Dog Star Man cycle, using the same footage[2] |
Black Vision | 16 mm | 3 minutes | Black-and-white | |
Fire of Waters | 16 mm | 7 minutes | Black-and-white, sound | |
Pasht | 16 mm | 5 minutes | ||
Three Films: Blue White, Blood’s Tone, Vein | 16 mm | 9 minutes | ||
Two: Creeley/McClure | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (For Gordon) | 16 mm | 5 minutes | ||
Song 9 & Song 10 | 8 mm | 7 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 11 | 8 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 12 | 8 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 13 | 8 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 14 | 8 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
15 Song Traits | 8 mm | 38+1⁄2 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Song 16 | 8 mm | 7 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Songs 17 & 18 | 8 mm | 5 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Songs 19 & 20 | 8 mm | 8 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
Songs 21 & 22 | 8 mm | 6 minutes | Part of Songs cycle | |
1966–1967 | 23rd Psalm Branch | 8 mm | 69 minutes | Part of Songs cycle; Brakhage later released the film as two halves under the names 23rd Psalm Branch: Part 1 (1979) and 23rd Psalm Branch: Part 2 (1980)[2] |
1967 | Scenes from Under Childhood (Section One) | 16 mm | 24+1⁄2 minutes | Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle; available in versions with and without sound |
Eye Myth | 35 mm | 9 seconds | ||
1968 | The Horseman, the Woman and the Moth | 16 mm | 19 minutes | |
Love Making | 16 mm | 36 minutes | ||
Songs 24 & 25 | 8 mm | 6+1⁄2 minutes | Part of Songs cycle; reissued in 16 mm in 1984[2] | |
Song 26 | 8 mm | 8 minutes | Part of Songs cycle; reissued in 16 mm in 1984[2] | |
My Mtn. Song 27 | 8 mm | 8 minutes | Part of Songs cycle; reissued in a 20 minute-version on 16 mm in 1987[2] | |
1969 | Song 27 (Part II) Rivers | 8 mm | 26 minutes | Part of Songs cycle; reissued on 16 mm in 1988[2] |
Song 28 | 8 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Songs cycle; reissued on 16 mm in 1985[2] | |
Song 29 | 8 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Songs cycle; reissued on 16 mm in 1985[2] | |
American 30's Song | 8 mm | 35 minutes | Part of Songs cycle; running time given is for 18 frames per second | |
Window Suite of Children’s Songs | 8 mm | 24 minutes | Part of Songs cycle. | |
Scenes from Under Childhood (Section Two) | 16 mm | 40 minutes | Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle | |
Scenes from Under Childhood (Section Three) | 16 mm | 25 minutes | Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle | |
Industrial films and other works
In the early 1960s, Brakhage directed several industrial and educational films,[2] including two for the state of Colorado. He also directed commercials for Rural Electric of Dakota. In 1969, Brakhage served as cinematographer on the short film Nuptiae, directed by James Broughton.
1970s
Year | Title | Format | Length | Notes |
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1970 | Scenes from Under Childhood (Section Four) | 16 mm | 45 minutes | Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle |
The Weir-Falcon Saga | 16 mm | 29 minutes | ||
The Machine of Eden | 16 mm | 11+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Animals of Eden and After | 16 mm | 35 minutes | ||
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel | Super 8 | 6 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |
1971 | eyes | 16 mm | 35 minutes | Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" |
Deus Ex | 16 mm | 33 minutes | Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" | |
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes | 16 mm | 32 minutes | Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" | |
Wecht | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
Angels | 16 mm | 2 minutes | ||
Door | 16 mm | 3+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Fox Fire Child Watch | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
The Peaceable Kingdom | 16 mm | 8 minutes | ||
Western History | 16 mm | 8 minutes | ||
The Trip to Door | 16 mm | 12+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Sexual Meditation: Room with View | 16 mm | 4 minutes | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |
1972 | The Presence | 16 mm | 3+1⁄2 minutes | |
Eye Myth Educational | 16 mm | 2 minutes | Uses footage from Eye Myth | |
Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale | 16 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite | 16 mm | 4 minutes | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |
Sexual Meditation: Hotel | 16 mm | 6+1⁄2 minutes | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |
Sexual Meditation: Open Field | 16 mm | 6 minutes | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |
The Process | 16 mm | 9 minutes | ||
The Riddle of Lumen | 16 mm | 13 minutes | ||
The Shores of Phos: A Fable | 16 mm | 10 minutes | ||
The Wold Shadow | 16 mm | 2+1⁄2 minutes | ||
1973 | Gift | 16 mm | 3 minutes | |
The Women | 16 mm | 3+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Sincerity I | 16 mm | 27 minutes | Part of Sincerity cycle | |
1974 | Aquarien | 16 mm | 3 minutes | |
Clancy | 16 mm | 4+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Dominion | 16 mm | 4 minutes | ||
Flight | 16 mm | 5+1⁄2 minutes | ||
"He was born, he suffered, he died." | 16 mm | 7+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Hymn to Her | 16 mm | 2+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Skein | 16 mm | 5 minutes | ||
Sol | 16 mm | 4 minutes | ||
Star Garden | 16 mm | 22 minutes | ||
The Text of Light | 16 mm | 71 minutes | ||
The Stars are Beautiful | 16 mm | 19 minutes | Sound | |
1975 | Short Films: 1975 | 16 mm | 38 minutes | A collection of ten works ranging from 2 1/2 to 6 minutes in length that Brakhage distributed as a single piece.
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Sincerity II | 16 mm | 38 minutes | Part of Sincerity cycle | |
1976 | Gadflies | Super 8 | 12+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second |
Sketches | Super 8 | 9 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Window | Super 8/16 mm | 10+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Trio | Super 8/16 mm | 6+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane | Super 8/16 mm | 17+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Desert | Super 8/16 mm | 11 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Highs | Super 8/16 mm | 7 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Airs | Super 8/16 mm | 24 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Absence | Super 8/16 mm | 8 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Short Films: 1976 | 16 mm | 25 minutes | ||
The Dream, NYC, The Return, The Flower | Super 8/16 mm | 24+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Tragoedia | 16 mm | 35 minutes | ||
1977 | The Domain of the Moment | 16 mm | 15+1⁄2 minutes | |
The Governor | 16 mm | 57+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects | 16 mm | 22 minutes | ||
1978 | Bird | 16 mm | 4 minutes | |
Burial Path | 16 mm | 15 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Centre | 16 mm | 13 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Nightmare Series | 16 mm | 20 minutes | ||
Purity and After | 16 mm | 5 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Sluice | 16 mm | 6 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Duplicity I | 16 mm | 23 minutes | Part of Duplicity cycle | |
Duplicity II | 16 mm | 20 minutes | Part of Duplicity cycle | |
Thot-Fal’N | 16 mm | 9 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Sincerity III | 16 mm | 35 minutes | Part of Sincerity cycle | |
1979 | @ | 16 mm | 6 minutes | 18 frames per second |
Creation | 16 mm | 17 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
I | 16 mm | 6 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans") | |
II | 16 mm | 9 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans") | |
III | 16 mm | 2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans") | |
IV | 16 mm | 2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans") | |
V | 16 mm | 3 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans") | |
Other missing works
Around 1979, Brakhage produced as many as five films[2] using the Polavision developed by Polaroid. These films are estimated to have been about 2+1⁄2 minutes each in length. Their present whereabouts are unknown.
1980s
Year | Title | Format | Length | Notes |
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1980 | VI | 16 mm | 10 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans") |
VII | 16 mm | 5 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans") | |
Made Manifest | 16 mm | 12 minutes | ||
Other | 16 mm | 3 minutes | 18 frames per second. | |
Salome | 16 mm | 3 minutes | 18 frames per second. | |
Sincerity IV | 16 mm | 37 minutes | Part of Sincerity cycle | |
Sincerity V | 16 mm | 35 minutes | Part of Sincerity cycle | |
Duplicity III | 16 mm | 23+1⁄2 minutes | Part of Duplicity cycle | |
Murder Psalm | 16 mm | 18 minutes | ||
1981 | 1 | 16 mm | 5+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") |
2 | 16 mm | 7 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
3 | 16 mm | 10+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
VIII | 16 mm | 4 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans") | |
IX | 16 mm | 2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans") | |
Aftermath | 16 mm | 8 minutes | ||
The Garden of Earthly Delights | 35 mm | 1+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Nodes | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
RR | 16 mm | 8 minutes | ||
Unconscious London Strata | 16 mm | 22 minutes | ||
4 | 16 mm | 10 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
5 | 16 mm | 5 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
6 | 16 mm | 11 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
7 | 16 mm | 11 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
8 | 16 mm | 7 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
9 | 16 mm | 12 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
0 + 10 | 16 mm | 27+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
11 | 16 mm | 10+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
12 | 16 mm | 27 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
13 | 16 mm | 5 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
1982 | 14 | 16 mm | 5+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") |
15 | 16 mm | 7+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
16 | 16 mm | 8+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
17 | 16 mm | 8 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
18 | 16 mm | 8+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
19 | 16 mm | 9 minutes | 18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics") | |
1983 | Hell Spit Flexion | 16 mm/35 mm | 1 minute | Part of "The Dante Quartet" |
1984 | Egyptian Series | 16 mm | 17 minutes | |
Tortured Dust, part 1 | 16 mm | 23 minutes | ||
Tortured Dust, part 2 | 16 mm | 21+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Tortured Dust, part 3 | 16 mm | 24+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Tortured Dust, part 4 | 16 mm | 24+1⁄2 minutes | ||
1985 | Jane | 16 mm | 13 minutes | |
1986 | The Aerodyne | 16 mm | 3 minutes | Later included as part of Caswallon Trilogy[4] |
Fireloop | 16 mm | 3 minutes | Sound by Joel Haertling; later included as part of Caswallon Trilogy | |
Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander | 16 mm | 2+1⁄2 minutes | Later included as part of Caswallon Trilogy | |
Confession | 16 mm | 27 minutes | Also known as Love Sacrifice | |
The Loom | 16 mm | 43+1⁄2 minutes | Also known as Love Sacrifice | |
Night Music | 16 mm/35 mm | 30 seconds | Part of Three Hand-Painted Films | |
1987 | Loud Visual Noises | 16 mm | 3+1⁄2 minutes | Available in a silent version and a sound version with music by Die Tödliche Doris, Zoviet France, The Hafler Trio, Nurse with Wound, Joel Haertling, and I.H.T.S.O. |
The Dante Quartet | 16 mm/35 mm | 6 minutes | ||
Kindering | 16 mm | 3 minutes | Sound by Architects Office | |
1988 | Faustfilm: An Opera, Part 1 | 16 mm | 43+1⁄2 minutes | Sound; part of the Faustfilm project |
I... Dreaming | 16 mm | 7 minutes | Sound by Joel Haertling | |
Marilyn's Window | 16 mm | 9 minutes | Title refers to Brakhage's wife, Marilyn Brakhage | |
Matins | 16 mm | 2+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Rage Net | 16 mm/35 mm | 1 minute | Part of Three Hand-Painted Films | |
Faust's Other: An Idyll | 16 mm | 44+1⁄2 minutes | Sound; part of the Faustfilm project | |
Faust 3: Candida Arbacore | 16 mm | 27 minutes | Sound by Joel Haertling; part of the Faustfilm project | |
Faust IV | 16 mm | 38+1⁄2 minutes | Sound; part of the Faustfilm project | |
1989 | Visions in Meditation | 16 mm | 17+1⁄2 minutes | Part of the Visions in Meditation cycle |
Visions in Meditation #2 | 16 mm | 17 minutes | Part of the Visions in Meditation cycle | |
Babylon Series #1 | 16 mm | 6 minutes | ||
1990s
Year | Title | Format | Length | Notes |
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1990 | Visions in Meditation #3 | 16 mm | 18 minutes | Part of the Visions in Meditation cycle; subtitled "Plato's Cave" |
Visions in Meditation #4 | 16 mm | 19 minutes | Part of the Visions in Meditation cycle; subtitled "D.H. Lawrence" | |
Babylon Series #2 | 16 mm | 2 minutes | ||
Babylon Series #3 | 16 mm | 6 minutes | ||
City Streaming | 16 mm | 19+1⁄2 minutes | ||
The Thatch of Night | 16 mm | 5 minutes | ||
Vision of the Fire Tree | 16 mm | 5 minutes | ||
Passage Through: A Ritual | 16 mm | 49 minutes | Music by Philip Corner | |
Glaze of Cathexis | 16 mm | 3 minutes | Part of Three Hand-painted Films | |
1991 | Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse | 16 mm | 4 minutes | |
A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea | 16 mm | 74 minutes | One of the Vancouver Island films | |
Christ Mass Sex Dance | 16 mm | 4 minutes | Sound | |
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse | 16 mm | 8 minutes | ||
1992 | Crack Glass Eulogy | 16 mm | 6 minutes | Sound |
Interpolations 1–5 | 35 mm | 12 minutes | ||
Untitled (For Marilyn) | 16 mm | 11 minutes | The film is officially untitled, but is referred to by the dedication that appears in place of a title card. It is dedicated to his wife Marilyn Brakhage.[2] | |
1993 | Boulder Blues and Pearls and... | 16 mm | 23+1⁄2 minutes | Sound |
Blossom Gift Favor | 16 mm | 2 minutes | ||
Autumnal | 16 mm | 5 minutes | ||
Ephemeral Solidity | 16 mm | 4+1⁄2 minutes | ||
The Harrowing | 16 mm | 2 minutes | ||
Tryst Haunt | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
Stellar | 16 mm | 2+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Study in Color and Black-and-white | 16 mm | 2 minutes | ||
Three Homerics: Diana Holding Back the Night, The Rolling Sea, and Love Again | 16 mm | 6 minutes | ||
1994 | Black Ice | 16 mm | 6 minutes | |
Cannot Exist | 16 mm | 1 minute | ||
Cannot Not Exist | 16 mm | 8 minutes | ||
Chartres Series | 16 mm | 8+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Elementary Phrases | 16 mm | 34+1⁄2 minutes | Made in collaboration with Phil Solomon | |
From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis | 16 mm | 2+1⁄2 minutes | ||
The Mammals of Victoria | 16 mm | 34+1⁄2 minutes | One of the Vancouver Island films | |
Naughts | 16 mm | 6 minutes | ||
1995 | I Take These Truths | 16 mm | 18 minutes | |
We Hold These | 16 mm | 12 minutes | ||
I... | 16 mm | 27 minutes | ||
In Consideration of Pompeii | 16 mm | 4+1⁄2 minutes | 18 frames per second | |
Paranoia Corridor | 16 mm | 3+1⁄2 minutes | ||
The "b" Series | 16 mm | 12+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Earthen Aerie | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
The Lost Films | 16 mm | 45 minutes | Made of nine untitled films completed in 1991 and 1992[2] | |
Spring Cycle | 16 mm | 11 minutes | ||
...Preludes 1–6 | 16 mm | 11+1⁄2 minutes | ||
...Preludes 7–12 | 16 mm | 16+1⁄2 minutes | ||
1996 | ...Preludes 13–18 | 16 mm | 10 minutes | |
...Preludes 19–24 | 16 mm | 10 minutes | ||
Beautiful Funerals | 16 mm | 2 minutes | ||
Blue Value | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
Concrescence | 16 mm | 4 minutes | Made in collaboration with Phil Solomon | |
The Fur of Home | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
Polite Madness | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
Sexual Saga | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
Through Wounded Eyes | 16 mm | 7 minutes | Made in collaboration with Joel Haertling | |
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse | 16 mm | 7 minutes | ||
Commingled Containers | 16 mm | 7 minutes | ||
1997 | Shockingly Hot | 16 mm | 4 minutes | |
The Cat of the Worm’s Green Realm | 16 mm | 15+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Last Hymn to the Night – Novalis | 16 mm | 19 minutes | ||
Divertimento | 16 mm | 2+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Self Song & Death Song | 16 mm | 4+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind | 16 mm | 17 minutes | ||
1998 | ... | 16 mm | 95 minutes | Also known as Ellipses; consists of five separate reels, the last of which has sound. According to film critic and Brakhage scholar Fred Camper, the filmmaker "[had] said that it's acceptable to show any number of these in any order."[2] |
1999 | The Birds of Paradise | 16 mm | 3 minutes | |
Coupling | 16 mm | 5 minutes | ||
Cloud Chamber | 16 mm | 4 minutes | ||
Cricket Requiem | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
The Dark Tower | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
The Earthsong of the Cricket | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
The Lion and the Zebra Make God’s Raw Jewels | 16 mm | 8+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Moilsome Toilsome | 16 mm | 6 minutes | ||
Stately Mansions Did Decree | 16 mm | 5+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Worm and Web Love | 16 mm | 4+1⁄2 minutes | ||
The Persian Series 1–5 | 16 mm | 20 minutes | ||
2000s
Year | Title | Format | Length | Notes |
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2000 | The Persian Series 6–12 | 16 mm | 23 minutes | |
The Persian Series 13–18 | 16 mm | 9 minutes | ||
Dance | 16 mm | 6+1⁄2 minutes | Starring Vivienne Palmer | |
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him | 16 mm | 49 minutes | One of the "Vancouver Island" films | |
Water for Maya | 16 mm | 3+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Jesus Trilogy and Coda | 16 mm | 17 minutes | ||
2001 | Rounds | 16 mm | 14 minutes | |
Garden Path | 16 mm | 7 minutes | Made in collaboration with Mary Beth Reed | |
Micro Garden | 16 mm | 4 minutes | ||
Night Mulch | 35 mm | 2 minutes | ||
Very | 35 mm | 4 minutes | ||
Micro Garden | 16 mm | 4 minutes | ||
Occam's Thread | 16 mm | 6 minutes | ||
Dark Night of the Soul | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
Lovesong | 16 mm | 11 minutes | Part of the Lovesongs cycle | |
Lovesong 2 | 16 mm | 3 minutes | Part of the Lovesongs cycle | |
Lovesong 3 | 16 mm | 9 minutes | Part of the Lovesongs cycle | |
Lovesong 4 | 16 mm | 3 minutes | Part of the Lovesongs cycle | |
2002 | Lovesong | 16 mm | 1 minutes | Part of the Lovesongs cycle |
Song of the Mushroom | 16 mm | 2 minutes | Made in collaboration with Joel Haertling | |
Ascension | 16 mm | 2+1⁄2 minutes | ||
Resurrectus Est | 16 mm | 8 minutes | ||
Max | 16 mm | 3 minutes | ||
SB (One Minute for Vienna) | 16 mm | 30 seconds | ||
Seasons... | 16 mm | 15 minutes | Made in collaboration with Phil Solomon | |
Panels for the Walls of Heaven | 16 mm | 31 minutes | One of the "Vancouver Island" films; the last of Brakhage's longer works | |
2003 | Stan's Window and Work in Progress | 16 mm | 13 minutes | Stan's Window and Work in Progress were usually shown together; Stan's Window was the last film Brakhage completed before his death, and Work in Progress consists of the last footage he shot. |
Chinese Series | 35 mm | 2+1⁄2 minutes | A project Brakhage was working on at the time of his death; only printed posthumously | |
References
- "By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
- Camper, Fred (November 22, 2011). "Stan Brakhage Filmography". Stan Brakhage on the Web. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
- "Stan Brakhage". IMDb.
- "Stan Brakhage - the Film-Makers' Cooperative".