Stan Brakhage
Director
391
Filmes
1
Séries
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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Sexual Meditation: Hotel
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Glaze of Cathexis
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Loud Visual Noises
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Thot-Fal'N
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Kindering
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Mothlight
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Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
Director, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
The Extraordinary Child
Director, Dir. de Fotografía, Escritor, Editor
Sweetgrass
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Sincerity I
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Nightmare Series
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Garden Path
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Black Vision
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Ephemeral Solidity
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The Text of Light
Director, Dir. de Fotografía
Dog Star Man
Director, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor
The Mammals of Victoria
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The Machine of Eden
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The Dante Quartet
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Dog Star Man: Part IV
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Cat's Cradle
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Blue Value
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Dog Star Man: Part III
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Wedlock House: An Intercourse
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Persian Series #3
Director
Chartres Series
Director
Ascension
Director
Autumnal
Director
Flesh of Morning
Director
Como Ator/Atriz
Screening Room
Himself
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
Cannibal! The Musical
Noon Sr.
Jonas in the Desert
Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
Invocation: Maya Deren
Himself
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
Self
The Extraordinary Child
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Self (archive footage)
Garden Path
Dog Star Man
Dog Star Man: Part IV
Cat's Cradle
Self
Dog Star Man: Part III
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
Flesh of Morning
Im Spiegel der Maya Deren
Himself
Filmmakers
Himself
Faust's Other: An Idyll
Abstract Cinema
Himself
Keeping an Eye on Stan
Birth of a Nation
Self
Reality's Invisible
Self
Brakhage
Self
Window Water Baby Moving
Self (uncredited)
The Art of Vision
Man
Song 1
Tortured Dust
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Self