Stan Brakhage Movies

SONG 1: Portrait of a lady (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964...

Super-8 film by Stan Brakhage. “Brief songs of light and line.”

This film, one of the most perfect ever given to me to make, was inspired by the series of paintings of the same title by Edward Hicks. - SB

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

This is a film composed of two elements: (1) simple hand-painted frames and brief strips of hand-painting, and (2) strips of blank colors, which...