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]

Legend
  Color with sound

1950s

Notes

Stan Brakhage 1950s' filmography
YearTitleFormatLengthNotes
1952Interim16 mm25+12 minutesBlack-and-white; features music by James Tenney
1953The Boy and the Sea16 mm2 minutesBlack-and-white
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection16 mm29 minutesBlack-and-white
1954Desistfilm16 mm7 minutesBlack-and-white, sound
The Extraordinary Child16 mm13 minutesBlack-and-white
The Way to Shadow Garden16 mm11+12 minutesBlack-and-white, sound
1955In Between16 mm10+12 minutesFirst color film; features music by John Cage
Reflections on Black16 mm12 minutesBlack-and-white, sound
Untitled film of Geoffrey Holder’s Wedding[2]16 mmUnknownCo-directed with Larry Jordan
The Wonder Ring16 mm6 minutes
1955–1956Gnir Rednow16 mm6 minutesCo-directed with Joseph Cornell
Centuries of June16 mm6 minutesCo-directed with Joseph Cornell; also known as Tower House, Bolts of Melody, Portrait of June, and June[2]
1956Flesh of Morning16 mm22 minutesBlack-and-white, sound; revised by Brakhage in 1986[2]
Nightcats16 mm8 minutes
Zone Moment16 mm3 minutes
1957Daybreak and White Eye16 mm8 minutesBlack-and-white, sound
Loving16 mm5 minutes
1958Anticipation of the Night16 mm40 minutes
1959Cat's Cradle16 mm6 minutes
Sirius Remembered16 mm11 minutes
Wedlock House: An Intercourse16 mm11 minutesBlack-and-white
Window Water Baby Moving16 mm12 minutes

1960s

Stan Brakhage 1960s' filmography
YearTitleFormatLengthNotes
1960Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself16 mm42 minutesAdaptation of Mr. Tompkins book by George Gamow
The Dead16 mm11 minutes
1961Thigh Line Lyre Triangular16 mm6 minutes
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie16 mm4 minutes
Dog Star Man: Prelude16 mm25 minutesPart of Dog Star Man cycle
1962Blue Moses16 mm10 minutesBlack-and-white, sound
Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender16 mm2 minutesBlack-and-white, sound
1962–1963Sartre's Nausea16 mm4 minutesBlack-and-white; title is a reference to Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
1962Dog Star Man: Part 116 mm31 minutesPart of Dog Star Man cycle
1963Mothlight16 mm3 minutes
Oh Life, A Woe Story, The A-Test News16 mm6 minutesBlack-and-white
Dog Star Man: Part 216 mm6 minutesPart of Dog Star Man cycle
1964Dog Star Man: Part 316 mm8 minutesPart of Dog Star Man cycle
Dog Star Man: Part 416 mm6 minutesPart of Dog Star Man cycle
Song 18 mm3 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 2 & Song 38 mm4+12 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 48 mm3 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 58 mm4+12 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 6 & Song 78 mm4+12 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 88 mm3+12 minutesPart of Songs cycle
1965The Art of Vision16 mm270 minutesExpanded version of the Dog Star Man cycle, using the same footage[2]
Black Vision16 mm3 minutesBlack-and-white
Fire of Waters16 mm7 minutesBlack-and-white, sound
Pasht16 mm5 minutes
Three Films: Blue White, Blood’s Tone, Vein16 mm9 minutes
Two: Creeley/McClure16 mm3 minutes
The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (For Gordon)16 mm5 minutes
Song 9 & Song 108 mm7 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 118 mm3 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 128 mm3 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 138 mm3 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 148 mm3 minutesPart of Songs cycle
15 Song Traits8 mm38+12 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Song 168 mm7 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Songs 17 & 188 mm5 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Songs 19 & 208 mm8 minutesPart of Songs cycle
Songs 21 & 228 mm6 minutesPart of Songs cycle
1966–196723rd Psalm Branch8 mm69 minutesPart 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]
1967Scenes from Under Childhood (Section One)16 mm24+12 minutesPart of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle; available in versions with and without sound
Eye Myth35 mm9 seconds
1968The Horseman, the Woman and the Moth16 mm19 minutes
Love Making16 mm36 minutes
Songs 24 & 258 mm6+12 minutesPart of Songs cycle; reissued in 16 mm in 1984[2]
Song 268 mm8 minutesPart of Songs cycle; reissued in 16 mm in 1984[2]
My Mtn. Song 278 mm8 minutesPart of Songs cycle; reissued in a 20 minute-version on 16 mm in 1987[2]
1969Song 27 (Part II) Rivers8 mm26 minutesPart of Songs cycle; reissued on 16 mm in 1988[2]
Song 288 mm3 minutesPart of Songs cycle; reissued on 16 mm in 1985[2]
Song 298 mm3 minutesPart of Songs cycle; reissued on 16 mm in 1985[2]
American 30's Song8 mm35 minutesPart of Songs cycle; running time given is for 18 frames per second
Window Suite of Children’s Songs8 mm24 minutesPart of Songs cycle.
Scenes from Under Childhood (Section Two)16 mm40 minutesPart of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle
Scenes from Under Childhood (Section Three)16 mm25 minutesPart 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

Stan Brakhage 1970s' filmography
YearTitleFormatLengthNotes
1970Scenes from Under Childhood (Section Four)16 mm45 minutesPart of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle
The Weir-Falcon Saga16 mm29 minutes
The Machine of Eden16 mm11+12 minutes
Animals of Eden and After16 mm35 minutes
Sexual Meditation #1: MotelSuper 86 minutes18 frames per second; part of Sexual Meditations cycle
1971eyes16 mm35 minutesPart of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy"
Deus Ex16 mm33 minutesPart of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy"
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes16 mm32 minutesPart of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy"
Wecht16 mm3 minutes
Angels16 mm2 minutes
Door16 mm3+12 minutes
Fox Fire Child Watch16 mm3 minutes
The Peaceable Kingdom16 mm8 minutes
Western History16 mm8 minutes
The Trip to Door16 mm12+12 minutes
Sexual Meditation: Room with View16 mm4 minutesPart of Sexual Meditations cycle
1972The Presence16 mm3+12 minutes
Eye Myth Educational16 mm2 minutesUses footage from Eye Myth
Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale16 mm3 minutesPart of Sexual Meditations cycle
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite16 mm4 minutesPart of Sexual Meditations cycle
Sexual Meditation: Hotel16 mm6+12 minutesPart of Sexual Meditations cycle
Sexual Meditation: Open Field16 mm6 minutesPart of Sexual Meditations cycle
The Process16 mm9 minutes
The Riddle of Lumen16 mm13 minutes
The Shores of Phos: A Fable16 mm10 minutes
The Wold Shadow16 mm2+12 minutes
1973Gift16 mm3 minutes
The Women16 mm3+12 minutes
Sincerity I16 mm27 minutesPart of Sincerity cycle
1974Aquarien16 mm3 minutes
Clancy16 mm4+12 minutes
Dominion16 mm4 minutes
Flight16 mm5+12 minutes
"He was born, he suffered, he died."16 mm7+12 minutes
Hymn to Her16 mm2+12 minutes
Skein16 mm5 minutes
Sol16 mm4 minutes
Star Garden16 mm22 minutes
The Text of Light16 mm71 minutes
The Stars are Beautiful16 mm19 minutesSound
1975Short Films: 197516 mm38 minutesA collection of ten works ranging from 2 1/2 to 6 minutes in length that Brakhage distributed as a single piece.
  1. "Jane's Memory"
  2. "Dante's Styx"
  3. "Hollis Frampton"
  4. "Jane's Memory"
  5. "Niagara Falls"
  6. "Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles"
  7. "Turning the Raccoon Loose"
  8. "Small Town Streets"
  9. "Forest Love Scene"
  10. "Painted Lightning"[3]
Sincerity II16 mm38 minutesPart of Sincerity cycle
1976GadfliesSuper 812+12 minutes18 frames per second
SketchesSuper 89 minutes18 frames per second
WindowSuper 8/16 mm10+12 minutes18 frames per second
TrioSuper 8/16 mm6+12 minutes18 frames per second
Rembrandt, Etc., and JaneSuper 8/16 mm17+12 minutes18 frames per second
DesertSuper 8/16 mm11 minutes18 frames per second
HighsSuper 8/16 mm7 minutes18 frames per second
AirsSuper 8/16 mm24 minutes18 frames per second
AbsenceSuper 8/16 mm8 minutes18 frames per second
Short Films: 197616 mm25 minutes
The Dream, NYC, The Return, The FlowerSuper 8/16 mm24+12 minutes18 frames per second
Tragoedia16 mm35 minutes
1977The Domain of the Moment16 mm15+12 minutes
The Governor16 mm57+12 minutes
Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects16 mm22 minutes
1978Bird16 mm4 minutes
Burial Path16 mm15 minutes18 frames per second
Centre16 mm13 minutes18 frames per second
Nightmare Series16 mm20 minutes
Purity and After16 mm5 minutes18 frames per second
Sluice16 mm6 minutes18 frames per second
Duplicity I16 mm23 minutesPart of Duplicity cycle
Duplicity II16 mm20 minutesPart of Duplicity cycle
Thot-Fal’N16 mm9 minutes18 frames per second
Sincerity III16 mm35 minutesPart of Sincerity cycle
1979@16 mm6 minutes18 frames per second
Creation16 mm17 minutes18 frames per second
I16 mm6 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans")
II16 mm9 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans")
III16 mm2 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans")
IV16 mm2 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans")
V16 mm3 minutes18 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+12 minutes each in length. Their present whereabouts are unknown.

1980s

Stan Brakhage 1980s' filmography
YearTitleFormatLengthNotes
1980VI16 mm10 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans")
VII16 mm5 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans")
Made Manifest16 mm12 minutes
Other16 mm3 minutes18 frames per second.
Salome16 mm3 minutes18 frames per second.
Sincerity IV16 mm37 minutesPart of Sincerity cycle
Sincerity V16 mm35 minutesPart of Sincerity cycle
Duplicity III16 mm23+12 minutesPart of Duplicity cycle
Murder Psalm16 mm18 minutes
1981116 mm5+12 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
216 mm7 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
316 mm10+12 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
VIII16 mm4 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans")
IX16 mm2 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Roman Numeral Series" (also called the "Romans")
Aftermath16 mm8 minutes
The Garden of Earthly Delights35 mm1+12 minutes
Nodes16 mm3 minutes
RR16 mm8 minutes
Unconscious London Strata16 mm22 minutes
416 mm10 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
516 mm5 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
616 mm11 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
716 mm11 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
816 mm7 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
916 mm12 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
0 + 1016 mm27+12 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
1116 mm10+12 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
1216 mm27 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
1316 mm5 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
19821416 mm5+12 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
1516 mm7+12 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
1616 mm8+12 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
1716 mm8 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
1816 mm8+12 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
1916 mm9 minutes18 frames per second; part of the "Arabic Numeral Series" (also called the "Arabics")
1983Hell Spit Flexion16 mm/35 mm1 minutePart of "The Dante Quartet"
1984Egyptian Series16 mm17 minutes
Tortured Dust, part 116 mm23 minutes
Tortured Dust, part 216 mm21+12 minutes
Tortured Dust, part 316 mm24+12 minutes
Tortured Dust, part 416 mm24+12 minutes
1985Jane16 mm13 minutes
1986The Aerodyne16 mm3 minutesLater included as part of Caswallon Trilogy[4]
Fireloop16 mm3 minutesSound by Joel Haertling; later included as part of Caswallon Trilogy
Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander16 mm2+12 minutesLater included as part of Caswallon Trilogy
Confession16 mm27 minutesAlso known as Love Sacrifice
The Loom16 mm43+12 minutesAlso known as Love Sacrifice
Night Music16 mm/35 mm30 secondsPart of Three Hand-Painted Films
1987Loud Visual Noises16 mm3+12 minutesAvailable 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 Quartet16 mm/35 mm6 minutes
Kindering16 mm3 minutesSound by Architects Office
1988Faustfilm: An Opera, Part 116 mm43+12 minutesSound; part of the Faustfilm project
I... Dreaming16 mm7 minutesSound by Joel Haertling
Marilyn's Window16 mm9 minutesTitle refers to Brakhage's wife, Marilyn Brakhage
Matins16 mm2+12 minutes
Rage Net16 mm/35 mm1 minutePart of Three Hand-Painted Films
Faust's Other: An Idyll16 mm44+12 minutesSound; part of the Faustfilm project
Faust 3: Candida Arbacore16 mm27 minutesSound by Joel Haertling; part of the Faustfilm project
Faust IV16 mm38+12 minutesSound; part of the Faustfilm project
1989Visions in Meditation16 mm17+12 minutesPart of the Visions in Meditation cycle
Visions in Meditation #216 mm17 minutesPart of the Visions in Meditation cycle
Babylon Series #116 mm6 minutes

1990s

Stan Brakhage 1990s' filmography
YearTitleFormatLengthNotes
1990Visions in Meditation #316 mm18 minutesPart of the Visions in Meditation cycle; subtitled "Plato's Cave"
Visions in Meditation #416 mm19 minutesPart of the Visions in Meditation cycle; subtitled "D.H. Lawrence"
Babylon Series #216 mm2 minutes
Babylon Series #316 mm6 minutes
City Streaming16 mm19+12 minutes
The Thatch of Night16 mm5 minutes
Vision of the Fire Tree16 mm5 minutes
Passage Through: A Ritual16 mm49 minutesMusic by Philip Corner
Glaze of Cathexis16 mm3 minutesPart of Three Hand-painted Films
1991Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse16 mm4 minutes
A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea16 mm74 minutesOne of the Vancouver Island films
Christ Mass Sex Dance16 mm4 minutesSound
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse16 mm8 minutes
1992Crack Glass Eulogy16 mm6 minutesSound
Interpolations 1–535 mm12 minutes
Untitled (For Marilyn)16 mm11 minutesThe 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]
1993Boulder Blues and Pearls and...16 mm23+12 minutesSound
Blossom Gift Favor16 mm2 minutes
Autumnal16 mm5 minutes
Ephemeral Solidity16 mm4+12 minutes
The Harrowing16 mm2 minutes
Tryst Haunt16 mm3 minutes
Stellar16 mm2+12 minutes
Study in Color and Black-and-white16 mm2 minutes
Three Homerics: Diana Holding Back the Night, The Rolling Sea, and Love Again16 mm6 minutes
1994Black Ice16 mm6 minutes
Cannot Exist16 mm1 minute
Cannot Not Exist16 mm8 minutes
Chartres Series16 mm8+12 minutes
Elementary Phrases16 mm34+12 minutesMade in collaboration with Phil Solomon
From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis16 mm2+12 minutes
The Mammals of Victoria16 mm34+12 minutesOne of the Vancouver Island films
Naughts16 mm6 minutes
1995I Take These Truths16 mm18 minutes
We Hold These16 mm12 minutes
I...16 mm27 minutes
In Consideration of Pompeii16 mm4+12 minutes18 frames per second
Paranoia Corridor16 mm3+12 minutes
The "b" Series16 mm12+12 minutes
Earthen Aerie16 mm3 minutes
The Lost Films16 mm45 minutesMade of nine untitled films completed in 1991 and 1992[2]
Spring Cycle16 mm11 minutes
...Preludes 1–616 mm11+12 minutes
...Preludes 7–1216 mm16+12 minutes
1996...Preludes 13–1816 mm10 minutes
...Preludes 19–2416 mm10 minutes
Beautiful Funerals16 mm2 minutes
Blue Value16 mm3 minutes
Concrescence16 mm4 minutesMade in collaboration with Phil Solomon
The Fur of Home16 mm3 minutes
Polite Madness16 mm3 minutes
Sexual Saga16 mm3 minutes
Through Wounded Eyes16 mm7 minutesMade in collaboration with Joel Haertling
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse16 mm7 minutes
Commingled Containers16 mm7 minutes
1997Shockingly Hot16 mm4 minutes
The Cat of the Worm’s Green Realm16 mm15+12 minutes
Last Hymn to the Night – Novalis16 mm19 minutes
Divertimento16 mm2+12 minutes
Self Song & Death Song16 mm4+12 minutes
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind16 mm17 minutes
1998...16 mm95 minutesAlso 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]
1999The Birds of Paradise16 mm3 minutes
Coupling16 mm5 minutes
Cloud Chamber16 mm4 minutes
Cricket Requiem16 mm3 minutes
The Dark Tower16 mm3 minutes
The Earthsong of the Cricket16 mm3 minutes
The Lion and the Zebra Make God’s Raw Jewels16 mm8+12 minutes
Moilsome Toilsome16 mm6 minutes
Stately Mansions Did Decree16 mm5+12 minutes
Worm and Web Love16 mm4+12 minutes
The Persian Series 1–516 mm20 minutes

2000s

Stan Brakhage 2000s' filmography
YearTitleFormatLengthNotes
2000The Persian Series 6–1216 mm23 minutes
The Persian Series 13–1816 mm9 minutes
Dance16 mm6+12 minutesStarring Vivienne Palmer
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him16 mm49 minutesOne of the "Vancouver Island" films
Water for Maya16 mm3+12 minutes
Jesus Trilogy and Coda16 mm17 minutes
2001Rounds16 mm14 minutes
Garden Path16 mm7 minutesMade in collaboration with Mary Beth Reed
Micro Garden16 mm4 minutes
Night Mulch35 mm2 minutes
Very35 mm4 minutes
Micro Garden16 mm4 minutes
Occam's Thread16 mm6 minutes
Dark Night of the Soul16 mm3 minutes
Lovesong16 mm11 minutesPart of the Lovesongs cycle
Lovesong 216 mm3 minutesPart of the Lovesongs cycle
Lovesong 316 mm9 minutesPart of the Lovesongs cycle
Lovesong 416 mm3 minutesPart of the Lovesongs cycle
2002Lovesong16 mm1 minutesPart of the Lovesongs cycle
Song of the Mushroom16 mm2 minutesMade in collaboration with Joel Haertling
Ascension16 mm2+12 minutes
Resurrectus Est16 mm8 minutes
Max16 mm3 minutes
SB (One Minute for Vienna)16 mm30 seconds
Seasons...16 mm15 minutesMade in collaboration with Phil Solomon
Panels for the Walls of Heaven16 mm31 minutesOne of the "Vancouver Island" films; the last of Brakhage's longer works
2003Stan's Window and Work in Progress16 mm13 minutesStan'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 Series35 mm2+12 minutesA project Brakhage was working on at the time of his death; only printed posthumously

References

  1. "By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  2. Camper, Fred (November 22, 2011). "Stan Brakhage Filmography". Stan Brakhage on the Web. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  3. "Stan Brakhage". IMDb.
  4. "Stan Brakhage - the Film-Makers' Cooperative".
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