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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 onDVD (as two separate volumes) andBlu-ray from the Criterion Collection.[1]
Legend
Contents Black-and-white
1950s Black-and-white with sound
1960s Color with sound
Industrial films and other works
1970s
Other missing works
1980s
1990s
2000s
References
External links
1950s
Notes
During the late 1950s, Brakhage worked on severalindustrial films, many of them for the city ofPittsburgh.[2]
Stan Brakhage 1950s' filmography
Year Title Format Length Notes
25 1/2 Black-and-white; features music by
1952 Interim 16 mm
minutes James Tenney
The Boy and the
16 mm 2 minutes Black-and-white
Sea
1953 Unglassed
Windows Cast a 16 mm 29 minutes Black-and-white
Terrible Reflection
Desistfilm 16 mm 7 minutes Black-and-white, sound
The Extraordinary
16 mm 13 minutes Black-and-white
1954 Child
The Way to 11 1/2
16 mm Black-and-white, sound
Shadow Garden minutes
10 1/2 First color film; features music by
In Between 16 mm
minutes John Cage
Reflections on
16 mm 12 minutes Black-and-white, sound
Black
1955
Untitled film of
Geoffrey Holder’s 16 mm Unknown Co-directed with Larry Jordan
Wedding[2]
The Wonder Ring 16 mm 6 minutes
Gnir Rednow 16 mm 6 minutes Co-directed with Joseph Cornell
1960s
Stan Brakhage 1960s' filmography
Year Title Format Length Notes
Mr. Tompkins Inside 42 Adaptation of Mr. Tompkins book by
16 mm
Himself minutes George Gamow
1960
11
The Dead 16 mm
minutes
Thigh Line Lyre
16 mm 6 minutes
Triangular
Films by Stan
1961 Brakhage: An Avant- 16 mm 4 minutes
Garde Home Movie
Dog Star Man: 25
16 mm Part of Dog Star Man cycle
Prelude minutes
10
Blue Moses 16 mm Black-and-white, sound
minutes
1962 Silent Sound Sense
Stars Subotnick and 16 mm 2 minutes Black-and-white, sound
Sender
Black-and-white; title is a reference
1962–1963 Sartre's Nausea 16 mm 4 minutes
to Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
31
1962 Dog Star Man: Part 1 16 mm Part of Dog Star Man cycle
minutes
Mothlight 16 mm 3 minutes
Oh Life, A Woe Story,
1963 16 mm 6 minutes Black-and-white
The A-Test News
Dog Star Man: Part 2 16 mm 6 minutes Part of Dog Star Man cycle
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
4 1/2
Song 2 & Song 3 8 mm Part of Songs cycle
minutes
1970s
Stan Brakhage 1970s' filmography
Year Title Format Length Notes
Scenes from
Part of Scenes from Under Childhood
Under Childhood 16 mm 45 minutes
cycle
(Section Four)
The Weir-Falcon
16 mm 29 minutes
Saga
1970 The Machine of 11 1/2
16 mm
Eden minutes
Animals of Eden
16 mm 35 minutes
and After
Sexual Meditation 18 frames per second; part ofSexual
Super 8 6 minutes
#1: Motel Meditations cycle
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 16 mm 32 minutes Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy"
Eyes
Wecht 16 mm 3 minutes
Angels 16 mm 2 minutes
3 1/2
Door 16 mm
minutes
1971
Fox Fire Child
16 mm 3 minutes
Watch
The Peaceable
16 mm 8 minutes
Kingdom
Western History 16 mm 8 minutes
12 1/2
The Trip to Door 16 mm
minutes
Sexual Meditation:
16 mm 4 minutes Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
Room with View
1972 3 1/2
The Presence 16 mm
minutes
Eye Myth
16 mm 2 minutes Uses footage from Eye Myth
Educational
Sexual Meditation:
Faun's Room, 16 mm 3 minutes Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
Yale
Sexual Meditation:
16 mm 4 minutes Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
Office Suite
Sexual Meditation: 6 1/2
16 mm Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
Hotel minutes
Sexual Meditation:
16 mm 6 minutes Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
Open Field
The Process 16 mm 9 minutes
The Riddle of
16 mm 13 minutes
Lumen
The Shores of
16 mm 10 minutes
Phos: A Fable
The Wold Shadow 16 mm 2 1/2
minutes
Gift 16 mm 3 minutes
3 1/2
1973 The Women 16 mm
minutes
Sincerity I 16 mm 27 minutes Part of Sincerity cycle
Aquarien 16 mm 3 minutes
4 1/2
Clancy 16 mm
minutes
Dominion 16 mm 4 minutes
5 1/2
Flight 16 mm
minutes
"He was born, he 7 1/2
16 mm
suffered, he died." minutes
1974
2 1/2
Hymn to Her 16 mm
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
16 mm 19 minutes Sound
Beautiful
A 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"
Short Films: 1975 16 mm 38 minutes 4. "Jane's Memory"
1975 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]
1990s
Stan Brakhage 1990s' filmography
Year Title Format Length Notes
Visions in Meditation Part of the Visions in Meditation cycle;
16 mm 18 minutes
#3 subtitled "Plato's Cave"
Visions in Meditation Part of the Visions in Meditation cycle;
16 mm 19 minutes
#4 subtitled "D.H. Lawrence"
Babylon Series #2 16 mm 2 minutes
Babylon Series #3 16 mm 6 minutes
19 1/2
1990 City Streaming 16 mm
minutes
The Thatch of Night 16 mm 5 minutes
Vision of the Fire
16 mm 5 minutes
Tree
Passage Through: A
16 mm 49 minutes Music by Philip Corner
Ritual
Glaze of Cathexis 16 mm 3 minutes Part of Three Hand-painted Films
Agnus Dei Kinder
16 mm 4 minutes
Synapse
A Child’s Garden
16 mm 74 minutes One of the Vancouver Island films
and the Serious Sea
1991
Christ Mass Sex
16 mm 4 minutes Sound
Dance
Delicacies of Molten
16 mm 8 minutes
Horror Synapse
Crack Glass Eulogy 16 mm 6 minutes Sound
Interpolations 1–5 35 mm 12 minutes
1992 The film is officially untitled, but is
referred to by the dedication that appears
Untitled (For Marilyn) 16 mm 11 minutes
in place of a title card. It is dedicated to
his wife Marilyn Brakhage.[2]
Boulder Blues and 23 1/2
16 mm Sound
Pearls and... minutes
Blossom Gift Favor 16 mm 2 minutes
Autumnal 16 mm 5 minutes
4 1/2
Ephemeral Solidity 16 mm
minutes
The Harrowing 16 mm 2 minutes
2000s
Stan Brakhage 2000s' filmography
Year Title Format Length Notes
The Persian Series
16 mm 23 minutes
6–12
The Persian Series
16 mm 9 minutes
13–18
6 1/2
Dance 16 mm Starring Vivienne Palmer
minutes
2000 The God of Day
Had Gone Down 16 mm 49 minutes One of the "Vancouver Island" films
Upon Him
3 1/2
Water for Maya 16 mm
minutes
Jesus Trilogy and
16 mm 17 minutes
Coda
Rounds 16 mm 14 minutes
Made in collaboration withMary Beth
Garden Path 16 mm 7 minutes
Reed
Micro Garden 16 mm 4 minutes
Night Mulch 35 mm 2 minutes
Very 35 mm 4 minutes
Micro Garden 16 mm 4 minutes
2001
Occam's Thread 16 mm 6 minutes
Dark Night of the
16 mm 3 minutes
Soul
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
Lovesong 16 mm 1 minutes Part of the Lovesongs cycle
Song of the
16 mm 2 minutes Made in collaboration with Joel Haertling
Mushroom
2 1/2
Ascension 16 mm
minutes
Resurrectus Est 16 mm 8 minutes
2002
Max 16 mm 3 minutes
SB (One Minute for
16 mm 30 seconds
Vienna)
Seasons... 16 mm 15 minutes Made in collaboration withPhil Solomon
Panels for the One of the "Vancouver Island" films; the
16 mm 31 minutes
Walls of Heaven last of Brakhage's longer works
2003 Usually shown together;Stan's Window
Stan's Window and was the last film Brakhage completed
16 mm 13 minutes
Work in Progress before his death, and Work in Progress
consists of the last footage he shot.
Chinese Series 35 mm 2 1/2 A project Brakhage was working on at the
minutes time of his death; only printed
posthumously
References
1. "By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two" (https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/722-by-brakhage-an-anthol
ogy-volumes-one-and-two). The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
2. Camper, Fred (22 November 2011)."Stan Brakhage Filmography"(http://www.fredcamper.com/Brakhage/Filmograp
hy.html). Stan Brakhage on the Web. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
3. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104132/reference
4. http://film-makerscoop.com/filmmakers/stan-brakhage/http://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/stan-brakhage-
caswallon-trilogy
External links
Stan Brakhage filmographyon IMDb
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