Director
Stan Brakhage
1933Kansas City, Missouri, USA 350 Films
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.
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20 Little Films
2012
7.0
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two
2010
7.0
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One
2003
5.1
Chinese Series
2003
10.0
Panels for the Walls of Heaven
2002
Resurrectus Est
2002
SB
2002
6.5
Seasons...
2002
Ascension
2002
Song of the Mushroom
2002
7.0
Max
2002
5.8
Persian Series #16
2001
6.0
Micro Garden
2001
5.3
Garden Path
2001
Lovesong 5 & 6
2001
Dark Night of The Soul
2001
Lovesong 4
2001
5.2
Lovesong
2001
Lovesong 3
2001
Occam's Thread
2001
Rounds
2001
Very
2001
Night Mulch
2001
3.8
Lovesong 2
2001
Jesus Trilogy and Coda
2000
5.6
Persian Series #11
2000
5.8
Persian Series #10
2000
6.6
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him
2000
4.6
Water for Maya
2000
5.8
Persian Series #6
2000
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels
1999
Moilsome Toilsome
1999
5.7
Persian Series #2
1999
5.5
Persian Series #3
1999
5.2
Persian Series #1
1999
5.6
Persian Series #4
1999
5.8
Persian Series #5
1999
The Earthsong of the Cricket
1999
5.7
The Dark Tower
1999
The Birds Of Paradise
1999
7.0
Coupling
1999
Cloud Chamber
1999
Worm and Web Love
1999
Cricket Requiem
1999
4.0
"..." Reel 3
1998
5.5
"..." Reel 5
1998
The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (for Gordon)
1998
4.0
"..." Reel 4
1998
3.0
"..." Reel 2
1998
Self Song & Death Song
1997
5.9
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind
1997
4.6
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
1997
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis
1997
Divertimento
1997
6.3
Comingled Containers
1996
6.0
Prelude 9
1996
5.8
Prelude 11
1996
6.0
Prelude 7
1996
5.7
Prelude 8
1996
5.7
Prelude 13
1996
6.0
Prelude 10
1996
5.8
Prelude 14
1996
Shockingly Hot
1996
2.0
Prelude 15
1996
2.0
Prelude 16
1996
2.0
Prelude 21
1996
2.0
Prelude 22
1996
2.0
Prelude 24
1996
2.0
Prelude 17
1996
2.0
Prelude 19
1996
2.0
Prelude 20
1996
2.0
Prelude 23
1996
2.0
Prelude 18
1996
Blue Value
1996
Sexual Saga
1996
The Fur of Home
1996
5.0
Beautiful Funerals
1996
Polite Madness
1996
6.8
Concrescence
1996
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse
1996
5.2
I Take These Truths
1995
4.5
I...
1995
We Hold These
1995
The 'b' Series
1995
5.0
Prelude 3
1995
5.1
Prelude 4
1995
5.3
Prelude 1
1995
5.3
Prelude 2
1995
5.0
Prelude 5
1995
5.8
Prelude 6
1995
In Consideration of Pompeii
1995
7.0
The "Lost" Films
1995
Spring Cycle
1995
Paranoia Corridor
1995
4.5
Earthen Aerie
1995
6.0
Black Ice
1994
5.0
From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis
1994
4.7
Chartres Series
1994
5.0
The Mammals of Victoria
1994
5.7
Elementary Phrases
1994
4.5
Naughts
1994
Cannot Exist
1994
Cannot Not Exist
1994
6.4
Stellar
1993
6.2
Autumnal
1993
5.0
Three Homerics
1993
5.2
The Harrowing
1993
4.7
Tryst Haunt
1993
5.5
Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
1993
4.8
Study in Color and Black and White
1993
6.2
Ephemeral Solidity
1993
Blossom-Gift/Favor
1993
5.8
Untitled (For Marilyn)
1992
Christ Mass Sex Dance
1991
Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse
1991
5.2
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
1991
5.5
Crack Glass Eulogy
1991
6.3
A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea
1991
9.0
Passage Through: A Ritual
1990
Vision of the Fire Tree
1990
5.3
Glaze of Cathexis
1990
5.7
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
1990
5.1
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence
1990
City Streaming
1990
Babylon Series #2
1990
Babylon Series #3
1990
The Thatch of Night
1990
Babylon Series #1
1989
Faust IV
1989
4.7
Visions in Meditation #1
1989
5.3
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde
1989
5.6
I... Dreaming
1988
6.0
Faust 3: Candida Albacore
1988
5.7
Faust's Other: An Idyll
1988
5.2
Rage Net
1988
Marilyn's Window
1988
Matins
1988
6.3
The Dante Quartet
1987
4.0
Loud Visual Noises
1987
6.5
Faustfilm: An Opera
1987
5.1
Kindering
1987
5.0
The Loom
1986
Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander
1986
4.0
Fireloop
1986
5.4
Night Music
1986
Confession
1986
The Aerodyne
1986
3.0
Jane
1985
7.0
Tortured Dust
1984
Tortured Dust Part 3
1984
Tortured Dust Part 2
1984
Tortured Dust Part 1
1984
Tortured Dust Part 4
1984
8.0
Egyptian Series
1984
Hell Spit Flexion
1983
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 15
1982
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 19
1982
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 16
1982
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 18
1982
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 14
1982
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 17
1982
Nodes
1981
5.1
Unconscious London Strata
1981
Made Manifest
1981
Aftermath
1981
4.8
Arabic Numeral Series 12
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 11
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 0 + 10
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 13
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 9
1981
6.5
Arabic Numeral Series 7
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 8
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 3
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 6
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 1
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 2
198110.0
Arabic Numeral Series 4
1981
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 5
1981
6.0
The Garden of Earthly Delights
1981
7.2
RR
1981
6.1
Murder Psalm
1980
5.2
Duplicity III
1980
Roman Numeral: VII
1980
Roman Numeral: IV
1980
Roman Numeral: IX
1980
Roman Numeral: VI
1980
Roman Numeral: V
1980
4.7
Sincerity V
1980
Other
1980
Salome
1980
@
1979
6.5
Roman Numeral: I
1979
8.0
Roman Numeral: II
1979
Sincerity IV
1979
5.0
Creation
1979
Roman Numeral: III
1979
5.0
Burial Path
1978
5.4
Thot-Fal'N
1978
Bird
1978
3.5
Centre
1978
Nightmare Series
1978
Sluice
1978
Purity and After
1978
Duplicity II
1978
3.5
Sincerity III
1978
6.5
Duplicity I
1978
Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects
1977
Tragoedia
1977
5.6
The Domain of the Moment
1977
The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower
1976
Absence
1976
5.1
Desert
1976
Highs
1976
Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane
1976
Trio
1976
3.0
Window
1976
4.0
Airs
1976
Short Films 1976
1976
Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
1975
Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
1975
Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
1975
Short Films 1975: #5 (Niagara Falls)
1975
Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)
1975
Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)
1975
Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles)
1975
Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
1975
Short Films 1975
1975
4.3
Sincerity II
1975
5.2
Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)
1975
3.3
Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)
1975
5.0
The Stars Are Beautiful
1974
5.9
The Text of Light
1974
Hymn to Her
1974
5.7
Star Garden
1974
10.0
Skein
1974
Aquarien
1974
Clancy
1974
Flight
1974
10.0
“He was born, he suffered, he died.”
1974
Sol
1974
Dominion
1974
3.5
Sincerity I
1973
3.8
Sexual Meditation: Open Field
1973
The Women
1973
4.6
The Process
1972
5.5
The Riddle of Lumen
1972
4.7
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite
1972
4.0
Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale
1972
6.3
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1972
5.3
The Wold-Shadow
1972
4.7
Sexual Meditation: Hotel
1972
The Shores of Phos: A Fable
1972
5.8
Eye Myth Educational
1972
The Presence
1972
The Trip to Door
1971
Fox Fire Child Watch
1971
5.0
Western History
1971
3.9
Sexual Meditation: Room with View
1971
Door
1971
The Peaceable Kingdom
1971
Angels'
1971
5.5
Eyes
1970
5.4
The Machine of Eden
1970
10.0
The Animals of Eden and After
1970
5.0
The Weir-Falcon Saga
1970
Scenes from Under Childhood
1970
3.5
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four
1970
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
1970
4.6
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three
1969
3.8
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two
1969
8.0
My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers
1969
Window Suite of Children's Songs
1969
4.5
American 30s Song
1969
8.0
Song 28
1969
8.0
Song 29
1969
4.6
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One
1968
The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth
1968
3.8
Lovemaking
1968
6.7
My Mountain: Song 27
1968
8.0
Song 26
1968
5.4
Eye Myth
1967
8.0
Song 24
1967
8.0
Song 25
1967
6.0
For Life, Against the War
1967
8.2
23rd Psalm Branch
1967
6.1
23rd Psalm Branch: Part I
1967
5.6
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
1967
8.0
Song 21
1966
8.0
Song 20
1966
8.0
Song 17
1966
6.5
Song 22
1966
8.0
Song 18
1966
8.0
Song 19
1966
8.0
Song 16
1966
3.5
Pasht
1966
4.9
Two: Creeley/McClure
1965
4.5
Fire of Waters
1965
5.0
Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
1965
4.2
Song 12
1965
4.2
Song 14
1965
4.2
Song 13
1965
3.9
Song 11
1965
Black Vision
1965
7.0
The Art of Vision
1965
3.9
Song 10
1965
4.2
Song 9
1965
6.5
Dog Star Man
1965
6.1
Dog Star Man: Part IV
1964
6.1
Dog Star Man: Part III
1964
6.5
Dog Star Man: Part II
1964
4.2
Song 6
1964
4.5
Song 4
1964
4.2
Song 2
1964
4.2
Song 3
1964
4.4
Song 8
1964
4.2
Song 5
1964
4.4
Song 1
1964
4.3
Song 7
1964
5.7
Mothlight
1963
Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News
1963
6.2
Dog Star Man: Part I
1963
4.9
Blue Moses
1962
6.1
Prelude: Dog Star Man
1962
5.2
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
1961
Sartre's Nausea
1961
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie
1961
4.0
Ballad of the Colorado Ute
1961
4.7
The Dead
1960
7.0
Colorado Legend
1960
3.9
Sirius Remembered
1959
6.8
Window Water Baby Moving
1959
5.4
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959
5.8
Cat's Cradle
1959
6.4
Anticipation of the Night
1958
Loving
1957
Daybreak and Whiteye
1957
4.2
Flesh of Morning
1956
Zone Moment
1956
Nightcats
1956
6.0
The Wonder Ring
1955
4.0
Centuries of June
1955
In Between
1955
5.4
The Extraordinary Child
1954
5.5
Desistfilm
1954
6.5
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
1953
6.0
Interim
1952
Visions in Meditation
Arabic Numeral Series
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