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Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

Director · Born 1933-01-14 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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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 dropping out of college. Brakhage films seek to change the way we see. They encourage viewers to eschew traditional narrative structure in favor of pure visual perception that is not reliant on naming what is seen; rather his goal is to create a more visceral visual experience, for he believes that a "stream-of visual-consciousness could be nothing less than the pathway of the soul." To this end, his films are shot in highly sensual colors and utilize minimal soundtracks. His work can be divided into distinct periods. His first short films explored the properties and possibilities of light. In many of his experimental ventures, Brakhage has forgone traditional cinematography in favor of working directly with the film stock itself. He has occasionally painted, inked, scratched and dyed images onto it; he has also tried pasting organic objects on the film. His most famous example is the 1963 sh…

Directed

  1. Mothlight (1963) — Director
  2. Window Water Baby Moving (1959) — Director
  3. Eye Myth (1967) — Director
  4. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1972) — Director
  5. Stellar (1993) — Director
  6. The Dante Quartet (1987) — Director
  7. Night Music (1986) — Director
  8. Black Ice (1994) — Director
  9. Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962) — Director
  10. Dog Star Man: Part I (1963) — Director
  11. Rage Net (1988) — Director
  12. Comingled Containers (1996) — Director
  13. Dog Star Man: Part II (1964) — Director
  14. Dog Star Man (1965) — Director
  15. Glaze of Cathexis (1990) — Director
  16. The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981) — Director
  17. Dog Star Man: Part III (1964) — Director
  18. Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964) — Director
  19. The Wold-Shadow (1972) — Director
  20. Desistfilm (1954) — Director
  21. Cat's Cradle (1959) — Director
  22. The Dark Tower (1999) — Director
  23. The Wonder Ring (1955) — Director
  24. Kindering (1987) — Director
  25. I... Dreaming (1988) — Director
  26. Lovesong (2001) — Director
  27. Chinese Series (2003) — Director
  28. Anticipation of the Night (1958) — Director
  29. Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (1991) — Director
  30. Study in Color and Black and White (1993) — Director
  31. Untitled (For Marilyn) (1992) — Director
  32. Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959) — Director
  33. Crack Glass Eulogy (1991) — Director
  34. From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis (1994) — Director
  35. The Dead (1960) — Director
  36. The Text of Light (1974) — Director
  37. Persian Series #1 (1999) — Director
  38. The Stars Are Beautiful (1974) — Director
  39. Centuries of June (1955) — Director
  40. Persian Series #2 (1999) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Cannibal! The Musical (1996) — Noon Sr.
  2. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) — Self
  3. Window Water Baby Moving (1959) — Self (uncredited)
  4. Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
  5. Dog Star Man: Part I (1963)
  6. Dog Star Man: Part II (1964)
  7. Dog Star Man (1965)
  8. Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
  9. Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)
  10. Cat's Cradle (1959) — Self
  11. I... Dreaming (1988)
  12. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
  13. Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959)
  14. The Stars Are Beautiful (1974) — Narrator (voice)
  15. In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002) — Himself
  16. Song 1 (1964)
  17. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) — Himself
  18. The Extraordinary Child (1954)
  19. Reality's Invisible (1972) — Self
  20. Brakhage (1998) — Self
  21. The Art of Vision (1965) — Man
  22. Trumpit (1956)
  23. Grand Opera: An Historical Romance (1979) — Himself (voice)
  24. Flesh of Morning (1956)
  25. Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day (2002) — Himself
  26. Jonas in the Desert (1994) — Self
  27. Notes on Marie Menken (2006) — Self (archive footage)
  28. Garden Path (2001)
  29. Faust's Other: An Idyll (1988)
  30. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
  31. Invocation: Maya Deren (1986) — Himself
  32. Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003) (2003) — Self (archive footage)
  33. Vakvagany (2002) — Himself
  34. Tortured Dust (1984)
  35. Keepers of the Frame (1999) — Himself
  36. Abstract Cinema (1993) — Himself
  37. Stan & Jane Brakhage (1981) — Self
  38. Brakhage Crosses Central Park (2006) — Self
  39. Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye (1987) — Self
  40. The One Romantic Venture of Edward (1956)