Movies

Three TV "concretes."

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set...

While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh,...

It was while studying this film that I decided to group these ‘romans’ under the title Roman Numeral Series and to give up the term...

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set...

Section IV is the longest of the four parts and the one in which the photographic material from the past plays the most prominent role. We see more...

Begins with raccoon in a rose light, ends with fading face of child.

Begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with a candle wick burning, circled by boiling gold flecks.

Begins with green tiled bathroom ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman.

Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city.

Song of the Mushroom (2002), completed in December 2002, is a collaboration between filmmakers Joel Haertling and Stan Brakhage. With interest in...

A very personal lecture on filmmaker and friend Jim Davis.

Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and...

This film was originally photographed in 1970 in regular 8mm. It was, a decade later, blown up to 16mm so that it could join the rest of the Sexual...

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. —SB

“Films made by the five Brakhage children; Brakhage arranged them in this form but did not edit them.” –Robert Haller

Phos equals light, but then I did also want that word within the title which would designate place, as within the nationalities of "the fabulous" - a...