Stan Brakhage
Director
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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 short Mothlight in which he glued moth wings onto the stock. Some of his early films were based on his most intimate experiences that included making love to his new bride--depicted on negative film--in Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959), and an attempt to bring his dead dog back to life with a camera in Sirius Remembered (1959). During the 1960s, Brakhage's iconoclastic views were celebrated for their poetry, but during the '70s, his focus changed to social issues and he alienated many supporters with such disturbing film series as the "Pittsburgh documents" in which he presented many gruesome views of inner city life with films such as Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971) which was shot in a morgue. He also continued with autobiographical material with the "Sincerity/Duplicity series. During the 1980s, Brakhage's focus again changed--this time he became intrigued with creating truly "abstract" films such as Arabics (1982) which consists of brilliant bursts of colored light which he claims, represent "envisioned music." In addition to filmmaking, Brakhage also wrote books about films and filmmaking and also served as a teacher.
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Sweetgrass
Thanks
Dog Star Man
Director, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor
Sirius Remembered
Director
Dog Star Man: Part I
Director
The Wonder Ring
Director, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor
Mothlight
Director
The Stars Are Beautiful
Director, Editor, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía
Anticipation of the Night
Director
20 Little Films
Director
Eye Myth
Director
Window Water Baby Moving
Director, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor
Prelude: Dog Star Man
Director
Chinese Series
Director
Persian Series #2
Director
Murder Psalm
Director
The Dead
Director
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
Director
Duplicity II
Director
Micro-Garden
Director
Dog Star Man: Part IV
Director
Sartre's Nausea
Director
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
Director
For Life, Against the War
Director
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
Director
Jesus Trilogy and Coda
Director
The Art of Vision
Director, Editor, Productor, Dir. de Fotografía
Desistfilm
Director, Editor, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía
Dog Star Man: Part II
Director
Kindering
Director
The Domain of the Moment
Director
Como Actor/Actriz
Cannibal! The Musical
Noon Sr.
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
Screening Room
Himself
Jonas in the Desert
Self
Dog Star Man
Birth of a Nation
Self
Invocation: Maya Deren
Himself
Dog Star Man: Part I
The Stars Are Beautiful
Narrator (voice)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself
Window Water Baby Moving
Self (uncredited)
Prelude: Dog Star Man
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
Dog Star Man: Part IV
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Self
Filmmakers
Himself
The Art of Vision
Man
Dog Star Man: Part II
The Extraordinary Child
Im Spiegel der Maya Deren
Himself
Cat's Cradle
Self
Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
Voice
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
Self
Dog Star Man: Part III
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Himself (voice)
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
Faust's Other: An Idyll
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Self (archive footage)