Stan Brakhage
DirectingBorn
January 14, 1933
Died
March 9, 2003
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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 tr…
Known For
Screening Room
1972
Cannibal! The Musical
1996
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Birth of a Nation
1997
The Extraordinary Child
1954
Dog Star Man
1965
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
Window Water Baby Moving
1959
Jonas in the Desert
1994
Filmography
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
Brakhage by Mothlight
2016
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
For Stan
2009
Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow
2008
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
2006
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2006
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
2004
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2003
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Keeping an Eye on Stan
2003
Encomium
2003
Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting
2002
Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
Vakvagany
2002
Garden Path
2001
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Looking at Forest of Bliss
2000
Keepers of the Frame
1999
Brakhage
1998
I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)
1998
Birth of a Nation
1997
Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos
1997
Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis
1997
Cannibal! The Musical
1996
BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE
1996
As Is Was
1995
Jonas in the Desert
1994
Abstract Cinema
1993
Z (Zee Not Zed)
1993
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991
Watunna
1989
I... Dreaming
1988
Faust's Other: An Idyll
1988
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
1987
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1985
Tortured Dust
1984
Stan & Jane Brakhage
1981
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
1979
The Stars Are Beautiful
1974
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Reality's Invisible
1972
Filmmakers
1969
Legendary Epics Yarns and Fables Part 2: Stan Brakhage
1969
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
The Art of Vision
1965
Dog Star Man
1965
Dog Star Man: Part IV
1964
Dog Star Man: Part III
1964
Dog Star Man: Part II
1964
Song 1
1964
Dog Star Man: Part I
1963
Prelude: Dog Star Man
1962
Window Water Baby Moving
1959
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959
Cat's Cradle
1959
Flesh of Morning
1956
Trumpit
1956
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
1956
The Extraordinary Child
1954
Songs