- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w.  
fullscreen.   sound - Dolby digital monaural.  
- Notes:
- Essay booklet available from checkout.
Titles
+ Desistfilm
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1954
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- An early psychodrama from the filmmaker, in which a subjective camera interacts with participants in a drunken party.
+ Wedlock House: An Intercourse
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1959
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- “The first months of marriage, with moments of mutual awareness, frightening understandings, lovemaking.”
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Dog Star Man
- Alternate Title:
- Dog Star Man Complete
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Feature.   75 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1961 - 1964
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Contains Prelude And Parts 1 - 4. A mythic, cosmic depiction of a woodsman’s journey.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   32 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1971
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A documentary chronicle of an autopsy room.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Cat’s Cradle
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1959
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Sexual witchcraft involving two couples and a medium cat.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Window Water Baby Moving
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   12 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1959
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An avant-garde documentary chronicle of the birth of the filmmaker’s daughter.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Mothlight
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1963
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Made by pasting the wings of moths and flower petals on a clear strip of film.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Eye Myth
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1967
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A heavily manipulated (painted and scratched) found footage film.
+ Wold Shadow, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1972
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Painted images appear before a shot of the woods.
+ Garden of Earthly Delights, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1981
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A collage made of vegetation, in tribute to/argument with Hieronymus Bosch.
+ Stars Are Beautiful, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   19 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1974
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Intercut cosmic and domestic images, with voice-over readings of myths about the nature of the stars, the sun and the sky.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Kindering
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1987
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Images and sounds of children at play.
+ I . . . Dreaming
- Alternate Title:
- I Dreaming
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1988
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A setting-to-film of a collage of Stephen Foster phrases.
+ Dante Quartet, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1987
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A hand-painted film that demonstrates the earthly conditions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Night Music
- Alternate Title:
- Nightmusic
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1986
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Bursts of color make a musical dance, while very rapid editing between frames with very different paint patterns creates the illusion of superimposition.
+ Rage Net
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1988
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A hand-painted film in which colors have been applied to areas of black film where the emulsion was first scraped off.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Glaze of Cathexis
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1990
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A hand-painted work tracing the hypnagogic after-effect of psychological cathexis as designated by Freud.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1990
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A film inspired in part by television viewing and other “molten horrors.”
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Untitled (For Marilyn)
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1992
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A hand-painted film, a hypnagogic four-part thought process interwoven with scratched words in thanks to and praise of God.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Black Ice
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1994
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A hand-painted, step-printed film inspired by a debilitating slip on black ice.
+ Study in Color and Black and White
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1993
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An exhibition of variously shaped small areas of color in a dark field, which explode into full frames of textured color interwoven with white scratch patterns that create a considerable sense of interior depth and three-dimensional movement.
+ Stellar
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1993
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity of motion, and makes partial use of painted frames in repetition.
+ Crack Glass Eulogy
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1991
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- “A nostalgic envisionment of city living.” (Stan Brakhage)
+ Dark Tower, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1999
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A hand-painted, step-printed film that begins with streaks of glare light and vibrantly colored forms as the silhouette of a tower comes into view. As the tower disappears, the conflagration of scratches and paints takes on the semblance of a battle.
+ Commingled Containers
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1996
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An anamorphic lens vision of water.
+ Lovesong
- Alternate Title:
- Love Song
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2001
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A hand-painted visualization of sex in the mind’s eye.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Brakhage on Brakhage I
- Alternate Title:
- Brakhage on Brakhage 1
- Director:
- Still, Colin
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1996
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary
+ Brakhage on Brakhage II
- Alternate Title:
- Brakhage on Brakhage 2
- Director:
- Still, Colin
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1996
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary
+ Brakhage on Brakhage III
- Alternate Title:
- Brakhage on Brakhage 3
- Director:
- Still, Colin
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1996
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary
+ Brakhage on Brakhage IV
- Alternate Title:
- Brakhage on Brakhage 4
- Director:
- Still, Colin
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1996
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary