SEARCH MOVIES...
A portrait of Brakhage shot in Victoria, British Columbia, just a few months before his death. Filmmaker Pip Chodorov illustrates Brakhage's...
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
I shot this roll of film at a party Bard College threw when it awarded Stan Brakhage an honorary degree. A few days after he died, I dug it out and...
Encomium
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
A poignant portrait of Stan and Jane Brakhage visiting Juarez.
Stan & Jane Brakhage
Clip from Walden.
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work...
Cat's Cradle
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...
Window Water Baby Moving
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...
Dog Star Man: Part IV
This documentary, made seven years after the death of legendary filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye, tells Lye's story: from being a young boy...
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
Short B/W film about the textures of the human skin and household objects, showing Brakhage in the morning as reality distorts around him. Revised in...
Flesh of Morning
BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic...
Brakhage
Stan Brakhage is a film maker whose work is shown mainly at film festivals. His work has been likened to poetry. Brakhage explains his techniques and...
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
Featuring a card game played on the body of a naked woman, Lawrence Jordan portrays male sexual frustration while slyly satirizing Hollywood reaction...
Trumpit
Stan Brakhage shows his new films at MoMA in New York. Before that, he said hello to me, Jonas Mekas, Birgit, the Anthology team and others. Later,...
I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)
Hungarian home movies are examined by the likes of James Ellroy and Stan Brakhage for evidence of family problems.
Vakvagany
In late 1966 I visited Stan Brakhage in Rollinsville, Colorado. This is a portrait of Stan at home, with his family, his animals, and the...
A depiction of the creative process of hand-painting film giant, Stan Brakhage. Inspired by Monet's paintings from Giverny, Brakhage's luminous...
Garden Path
Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving and...
Cannibal! The Musical
Stan Brakhage with a movie camera. Winter seascapes.
Z (Zee Not Zed)
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He...
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
The young man, played by Stan Brakhage, gets himself into a seriously comic mix-up by indulging in semi-sexual fantasies, and allowing the fantasies...
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a...
The Extraordinary Child
Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally...
I... Dreaming
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
SONG 1: Portrait of a lady (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964...
Song 1
We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips...
The Stars Are Beautiful
“Faust Part 2” reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from the Greek idein, "to see"); also, a journey of the id. A...
Faust's Other: An Idyll
We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at...
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Birth of a Nation
Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, a man and a woman's, close up, nude - patches of...
Dog Star Man: Part III
From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow. He carries an...
Dog Star Man: Part I
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...
Prelude: Dog Star Man
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...
Dog Star Man: Part II
Experimental 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.
Dog Star Man
This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was...
As Is Was
A deconstruction of Dog Star Man that takes the four rolls and shows them first combined, then each combination of three rolls, then each combination...
The Art of Vision
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
For Stan is a tribute film shot by Marilyn Brakhage of her husband at work with his camera in the late 1980s and early 90s – illuminating their...
For Stan
Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...
Filmmakers
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...
Invocation: Maya Deren
The creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Orinoco region of Venezuela provide a transparent look at the poetic process by which human beings...
Watunna
The culmination of a series of autobiographical films that Brakhage made about his family (collectively known as The Book of Family), Tortured Dust...
Tortured Dust
Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss. The...
Looking at Forest of Bliss
A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002.
Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton...
Reality's Invisible
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of...
Jonas in the Desert
A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
Notes on Marie Menken
An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States.
Keepers of the Frame
The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...
Keeping an Eye on Stan
A very personal lecture on filmmaker and friend Jim Davis.
Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis
Brakhage's lecture at the Whitney Museum is a thoughtful meditation on another friend and fellow filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos.
Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos
Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their...
Abstract Cinema
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
This afternoon summer scene is very much how he worked (when painting directly on film) in the last several years – at various cafes and sports...
Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting