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Stan Brakhage

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

14/01/1933

Day of Death

09/03/2003
(70) years old

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Stan Brakhage

Biography

Stan Brakhage is one of the most influential filmmakers in American avant-garde cinema, noted for his unflinching social commentaries and technical innovations. Over his nearly 40-year career, he has made over 200 films of varying length. He made his first film, Interim (1952) at age 18 after droppi... Read More

Known For

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

For Stan

Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

Brakhage Crosses Central Park

A Visit to Stan Brakhage

Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

Filmography

Cast

2022

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film A...

2011

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental...

as Himself

2009

For Stan

as Himself

2008

Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow

2006

Brakhage Crosses Central Park

as Self

2006

A Visit to Stan Brakhage

2006

Notes on Marie Menken

as Self (archive footage)

2004

Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Peri...

as Voice

2003

A Visit to Stan Brakhage

as Himself

2003

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Pri...

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Keeping an Eye on Stan

2003

Encomium

as Self

2002

Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting

2002

Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enter...

as Himself

2002

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

as Himself

2002

Vakvagany

as Himself

2001

Garden Path

2000

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Sa...

as Self

2000

Looking at Forest of Bliss

as Himself

1999

Keepers of the Frame

as Himself

1998

Brakhage

as Self

1998

I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)

1997

Birth of a Nation

as Self

1997

Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos

1997

Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis

1996

Cannibal! The Musical

as Noon Sr.

1996

BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE

as self

1995

As Is Was

1994

Jonas in the Desert

as Self

1993

Abstract Cinema

as Himself

1993

Z (Zee Not Zed)

1991

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

as Self

1989

Watunna

as Narrator

1988

I... Dreaming

1988

Faust's Other: An Idyll

1987

Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

as Self

1986

Invocation: Maya Deren

as Himself

1985

Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

as Self

1984

Tortured Dust

1981

Stan & Jane Brakhage

as Self

1979

Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

as Himself (voice)

1974

The Stars Are Beautiful

as Narrator (voice)

1973

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobi...

1972

Reality's Invisible

as Himself

1969

Filmmakers

as Himself

1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Self

1965

The Art of Vision

as Man

1965

Dog Star Man

1964

Dog Star Man: Part IV

1964

Dog Star Man: Part III

1964

Song 1

1963

Dog Star Man: Part I

1963

Dog Star Man: Part II

1962

Prelude: Dog Star Man

1959

Window Water Baby Moving

as Self (uncredited)

1959

Wedlock House: An Intercourse

1959

Cat's Cradle

as Self

1956

Flesh of Morning

1956

Trumpit

1956

The One Romantic Venture of Edward

1954

The Extraordinary Child

—

Songs

as Self (Uncredited)

Crew

—

Visions in Meditation

as Director

—

Arabic Numeral Series

as Director

—

Persian Series

as Director

2011

Drawings by Billy and His Friends

as In Memory Of

2003

Chinese Series

as Director

2002

Panels for the Walls of Heaven

as Director

2002

Resurrectus Est

as Director

2002

Seasons...

as Director

2002

Ascension

as Director

2002

Song of the Mushroom

as Director

2002

Max

as Director

2001

Persian Series #13

as Director

2001

Persian Series #14

as Director

2001

Persian Series #15

as Director

2001

Persian Series #16

as Director

2001

Persian Series #17

as Director

2001

Persian Series #18

as Director

2001

Garden Path

as Director

2001

Dark Night of The Soul

as Director

2001

Lovesong

as Director

2001

Rounds

as Director

2000

Jesus Trilogy and Coda

as Director

2000

Persian Series #10

as Director

2000

Persian Series #11

as Director

2000

Persian Series #12

as Director

2000

The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him

as Director

2000

Water for Maya

as Director

2000

Persian Series #6

as Director

2000

Persian Series #7

as Director

2000

Persian Series #8

as Director

2000

Persian Series #9

as Director

1999

Persian Series #1

as Director

1999

Persian Series #2

as Director

1999

Persian Series #3

as Director

1999

The Birds Of Paradise

as Director

1999

The Dark Tower

as Director

1999

Coupling

as Director

1999

Stately Mansions Did Decree

as Director

1998

"..." Reel 5

as Director

1997

Self Song & Death Song

as Director

1997

Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the...

as Director

1997

The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm

as Director

1996

Comingled Containers

as Director

1996

Prelude 7

as Director

1996

Prelude 8

as Director

1996

Prelude 9

as Director

1996

Prelude 10

as Director

1996

Prelude 11

as Director

1996

Prelude 12

as Director

1996

Prelude 13

as Director

1996

Prelude 14

as Director

1996

Shockingly Hot

as Director

1995

I Take These Truths

as Director

1995

The 'b' Series

as Director

1995

Prelude 1

as Director

1995

Prelude 2

as Director

1995

Prelude 3

as Director

1995

Prelude 4

as Director

1995

Prelude 5

as Director

1995

Prelude 6

as Director

1994

Black Ice

as Director

1994

From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis

as Director

1994

Chartres Series

as Director

1994

The Mammals of Victoria

as Director

1994

Naughts

as Director

1994

Elementary Phrases

as Director

1993

Stellar

as Director

1993

Autumnal

as Director

1993

Three Homerics

as Director

1993

The Harrowing

as Director

1993

Tryst Haunt

as Director

1993

Boulder Blues and Pearls and...

as Director

1993

Study in Color and Black and White

as Director

1993

Ephemeral Solidity

as Director

1992

Untitled (For Marilyn)

as Director

1991

Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse

as Director

1991

Crack Glass Eulogy

as Director

1991

A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea

as Director

1990

Glaze of Cathexis

as Director

1990

Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

as Director

1990

Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence

as Director

1989

Visions in Meditation #1

as Director

1989

Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde

as Director

1988

I... Dreaming

as Director

1988

Faust's Other: An Idyll

as Director

1988

Rage Net

as Director

1987

The Dante Quartet

as Director

1987

Loud Visual Noises

as Director

1987

Kindering

as Director

1986

Night Music

as Director

1985

Jane

as Director

1984

Egyptian Series

as Director

1981

Unconscious London Strata

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 12

as Director

1981

The Garden of Earthly Delights

as Director

1980

Murder Psalm

as Director

1980

Duplicity III

as Director

1979

Roman Numeral: II

as Director

1979

Creation

as Director

1978

Burial Path

as Director

1978

Thot-Fal'N

as Director

1977

The Domain of the Moment

as Director

1976

Desert

as Director

1976

Gadflies

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #5 (Niagara Falls)

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, E...

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoo...

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets...

as Director

1974

The Stars Are Beautiful

as Director

1974

The Text of Light

as Director

1974

Star Garden

as Director

1974

Skein

as Director

1974

Aquarien

as Director

1973

Sincerity I

as Director

1973

Sexual Meditation: Open Field

as Director

1973

The Women

as Director

1972

The Process

as Director

1972

The Riddle of Lumen

as Director

1972

Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale

as Director

1972

Sexual Meditation: Office Suite

as Director

1972

The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

as Director

1972

The Wold-Shadow

as Director

1972

Wecht

as Director

1972

Sexual Meditation: Hotel

as Director

1972

The Shores of Phos: A Fable

as Director

1972

Eye Myth Educational

as Director

1972

Eye Myth Educational

as Writer

1971

Deus Ex

as Director

1971

Fox Fire Child Watch

as Director

1971

The Trip to Door

as Director

1971

Door

as Director

1971

Western History

as Director

1971

Sexual Meditation: Room with View

as Director

1971

The Peaceable Kingdom

as Director

1971

Angels'

as Director

1970

Eyes

as Director

1970

The Machine of Eden

as Director

1970

The Animals of Eden and After

as Director

1970

The Weir-Falcon Saga

as Director

1970

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Fou...

as Director

1969

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Thr...

as Director

1969

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two

as Director

1969

My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers

as Director

1969

Song 28

as Director

1969

Song 29

as Director

1969

American 30s Song

as Director

1969

Window Suite of Children's Songs

as Director

1968

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One

as Director

1968

The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth

as Director

1968

Lovemaking

as Director

1968

Song 26

as Director

1968

My Mountain: Song 27

as Director

1967

Eye Myth

as Director

1967

Song 24

as Director

1967

Song 25

as Director

1966

Song 16

as Director

1966

Song 17

as Director

1966

Song 18

as Director

1966

Song 19

as Director

1966

Song 20

as Director

1966

Song 21

as Director

1966

Song 22

as Director

1966

Pasht

as Director

1965

Two: Creeley/McClure

as Director

1965

Fire of Waters

as Director

1965

Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vei...

as Director

1965

Song 11

as Director

1965

Song 12

as Director

1965

Song 13

as Director

1965

Song 14

as Director

1965

15 Song Traits

as Director

1965

The Art of Vision

as Director

1965

Song 10

as Director

1965

Song 9

as Director

1964

Dog Star Man: Part III

as Director

1964

Dog Star Man: Part IV

as Director

1964

Song 1

as Director

1964

Song 2

as Director

1964

Song 3

as Director

1964

Song 4

as Director

1964

Song 5

as Director

1964

Song 6

as Director

1964

Song 7

as Director

1964

Song 8

as Director

1963

Mothlight

as Director

1963

Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News

as Director

1963

Dog Star Man: Part I

as Director

1963

Dog Star Man: Part II

as Director

1962

Blue Moses

as Director

1962

Prelude: Dog Star Man

as Director

1962

Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and S...

as Director

1962

Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself

as Director

1962

Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself

as Writer

1962

Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself

as Editor

1961

Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

as Director

1961

Sartre's Nausea

as Director

1961

Ballad of the Colorado Ute

as Editor

1961

Ballad of the Colorado Ute

as Cinematography

1961

Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde H...

as Director

1960

The Dead

as Director

1959

Sirius Remembered

as Director

1959

Window Water Baby Moving

as Director

1959

Window Water Baby Moving

as Director of Photography

1959

Wedlock House: An Intercourse

as Director

1959

Cat's Cradle

as Director

1958

Anticipation of the Night

as Director

1957

Loving

as Director

1957

Daybreak and Whiteye

as Director

1956

Flesh of Morning

as Director

1956

Nightcats

as Director

1956

Zone Moment

as Director

1955

The Wonder Ring

as Director

1955

Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Weddi...

as Director

1955

Reflections on Black

as Director

1955

Centuries of June

as Director

1955

In Between

as Director

1954

The Way to Shadow Garden

as Director

1954

The Way to Shadow Garden

as Sound Designer

1954

Desistfilm

as Director

1953

The Boy and the Sea

as Director

2025

Derealization

as Visual Effects

2012

20 Little Films

as Director

2010

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two

as Director

2009

Sweetgrass

as Thanks

2003

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One

as Director

2003

Stan's Window & Work in Progress

as Director

2002

SB

as Director

2001

Micro Garden

as Director

2001

Lovesong 5 & 6

as Director

2001

Lovesong 4

as Director

2001

Lovesong 3

as Director

2001

Occam's Thread

as Director

2001

Very

as Director

2001

Night Mulch

as Director

2001

Lovesong 2

as Director

2000

Dance

as Director

1999

The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Je...

as Director

1999

Moilsome Toilsome

as Director

1999

Persian Series #4

as Director

1999

Persian Series #5

as Director

1999

The Earthsong of the Cricket

as Director

1999

Cloud Chamber

as Director

1999

Worm and Web Love

as Director

1999

Cricket Requiem

as Director

1998

"..." Reel 3

as Director

1998

The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (fo...

as Director

1998

"..." Reel 1

as Director

1998

"..." Reel 4

as Director

1998

"..." Reel 2

as Director

1997

Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis

as Director

1997

Divertimento

as Director

1996

Prelude 15

as Director

1996

Prelude 16

as Director

1996

Prelude 17

as Director

1996

Prelude 18

as Director

1996

Prelude 19

as Director

1996

Prelude 20

as Director

1996

Prelude 21

as Director

1996

Prelude 22

as Director

1996

Prelude 23

as Director

1996

Prelude 24

as Director

1996

Blue Value

as Director

1996

Sexual Saga

as Director

1996

Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhous...

as Director

1996

Through Wounded Eyes

as Director

1996

Polite Madness

as Director

1996

The Fur of Home

as Director

1996

Concrescence

as Director

1996

Beautiful Funerals

as Director

1995

I...

as Director

1995

We Hold These

as Director

1995

In Consideration of Pompeii

as Director

1995

Spring Cycle

as Director

1995

Paranoia Corridor

as Director

1995

The "Lost" Films

as Director

1995

Earthen Aerie

as Director

1994

Cannot Exist

as Director

1994

Cannot Not Exist

as Director

1994

Alternating Currents

as Director

1993

Blossom-Gift/Favor

as Director

1992

Interpolations 1-5

as Director

1991

Christ Mass Sex Dance

as Director

1991

Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse

as Director

1990

Passage Through: A Ritual

as Director

1990

Vision of the Fire Tree

as Director

1990

City Streaming

as Director

1990

Babylon Series #2

as Director

1990

Babylon Series #3

as Director

1990

The Thatch of Night

as Director

1989

Babylon Series #1

as Director

1989

Faust IV

as Director

1988

Faust 3: Candida Albacore

as Director

1988

Marilyn's Window

as Director

1988

Matins

as Director

1987

Faustfilm: An Opera

as Director

1986

The Loom

as Director

1986

Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander

as Director

1986

Fireloop

as Director

1986

Confession

as Director

1986

The Aerodyne

as Director

1985

Jane

as Editor

1985

Jane

as Director of Photography

1984

Tortured Dust

as Director

1984

Tortured Dust Part 1

as Director

1984

Tortured Dust Part 2

as Director

1984

Tortured Dust Part 3

as Director

1984

Tortured Dust Part 4

as Director

1983

Hell Spit Flexion

as Director

1982

Arabic Numeral Series 14

as Director

1982

Arabic Numeral Series 15

as Director

1982

Arabic Numeral Series 16

as Director

1982

Arabic Numeral Series 17

as Director

1982

Arabic Numeral Series 18

as Director

1982

Arabic Numeral Series 19

as Director

1981

Nodes

as Director

1981

Made Manifest

as Director

1981

Aftermath

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 7

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 8

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 9

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 0 + 10

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 11

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 13

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 1

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 2

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 3

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 4

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 5

as Director

1981

Arabic Numeral Series 6

as Director

1981

RR

as Director

1980

Roman Numeral: IV

as Director

1980

Roman Numeral: V

as Director

1980

Roman Numeral: VI

as Director

1980

Roman Numeral: VII

as Director

1980

Roman Numeral: VIII

as Director

1980

Roman Numeral: IX

as Director

1980

4A

as Director

1980

Sincerity V

as Director

1980

Other

as Director

1980

Salome

as Director

1979

@

as Director

1979

Roman Numeral: I

as Director

1979

Sincerity IV

as Director

1979

Roman Numeral: III

as Director

1978

Thot-Fal'N

as Cinematography

1978

Thot-Fal'N

as Editor

1978

Bird

as Director

1978

Centre

as Director

1978

Nightmare Series

as Director

1978

Sluice

as Director

1978

Sincerity III

as Director

1978

Purity and After

as Director

1978

Duplicity I

as Director

1978

Duplicity II

as Director

1977

The Governor

as Director

1977

Tragoedia

as Director

1977

Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects

as Director

1976

The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flowe...

as Director

1976

Absence

as Director

1976

Highs

as Director

1976

Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane

as Director

1976

Trio

as Director

1976

Trio

as Cinematography

1976

Window

as Director

1976

Airs

as Director

1976

Sketches

as Director

1976

Short Films 1976

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975

as Director

1975

Sincerity II

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)

as Director

1975

Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning...

as Director

1974

The Stars Are Beautiful

as Cinematography

1974

The Stars Are Beautiful

as Editor

1974

The Stars Are Beautiful

as Writer

1974

The Text of Light

as Director of Photography

1974

Hymn to Her

as Director

1974

Clancy

as Director

1974

Flight

as Director

1974

Sol

as Director

1974

“He was born, he suffered, he died.”

as Director

1974

Dominion

as Director

1973

Gift

as Director

1972

The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

as Director of Photography

1972

The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

as Editor

1972

The Presence

as Director

1970

Scenes from Under Childhood

as Director

1970

Sexual Meditation #1: Motel

as Director

1969

Nuptiae

as Director of Photography

1967

For Life, Against the War

as Director

1967

23rd Psalm Branch

as Director

1967

23rd Psalm Branch: Part I

as Director

1967

23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

as Director

1967

23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

as Cinematography

1967

23rd Psalm Branch: Part II

as Editor

1965

Black Vision

as Director

1965

The Art of Vision

as Editor

1965

The Art of Vision

as Cinematography

1965

The Art of Vision

as Producer

1965

Dog Star Man

as Director

1965

Dog Star Man

as Writer

1965

Dog Star Man

as Director of Photography

1965

Dog Star Man

as Editor

1965

Blood's Tone

as Director

1964

Song 5

as Cinematography

1964

Song 5

as Editor

1964

Song 1

as Cinematography

1964

Song 1

as Editor

1962

Blue Moses

as Cinematography

1962

Blue Moses

as Editor

1962

Blue Moses

as Writer

1961

Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

as Cinematography

1961

Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

as Editor

1961

Ballad of the Colorado Ute

as Director

1960

Colorado Legend

as Cinematography

1960

Colorado Legend

as Director of Photography

1960

Colorado Legend

as Director

1960

Colorado Legend

as Editor

1959

Window Water Baby Moving

as Editor

1959

Pittsburgh

as Cinematography

1955

The Wonder Ring

as Cinematography

1955

The Wonder Ring

as Editor

1955

Reflections on Black

as Cinematography

1955

Reflections on Black

as Editor

1955

Reflections on Black

as Writer

1955

In Between

as Cinematography

1955

In Between

as Editor

1955

In Between

as Writer

1954

The Extraordinary Child

as Director

1954

The Extraordinary Child

as Cinematography

1954

The Extraordinary Child

as Editor

1954

The Extraordinary Child

as Writer

1954

The Way to Shadow Garden

as Cinematography

1954

The Way to Shadow Garden

as Editor

1954

The Way to Shadow Garden

as Writer

1954

Desistfilm

as Cinematography

1954

Desistfilm

as Editor

1954

Desistfilm

as Writer

1953

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflec...

as Director

1953

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflec...

as Writer

1953

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflec...

as Cinematography

1953

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflec...

as Editor

1952

Interim

as Director

1952

Interim

as Cinematography

1952

Interim

as Editor

1952

Interim

as Writer

—

Songs

as Director

—

Songs

as Editor

—

Songs

as Cinematography

—

Songs

as Writer