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Overview

Date of Birth:

14 January 1933, Kansas City, Missouri, USA more

Date of Death:

9 March 2003, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada more

Trivia:

Made nearly 380 films, each lasting between 9 seconds and 4 hours. more

STARmeter:

Down 3% in popularity this week. See rank & trends on IMDbPro.

Awards:

1 win more

NewsDesk:
(5 articles)

CineVegas '09: Review of avant-garde western Redland
(From QuietEarth. 18 June 2009, 11:06 AM, PDT)
The Joy of American Avant-Garde
(From IFC. 7 April 2009, 8:13 AM, PDT)

Alternate Names:

J. Stan Brakhage

Filmography

Jump to filmography as: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Actor, Producer, Writer, Sound Department, Miscellaneous Crew, Thanks, Self, Archive Footage

Chinese Series (2003)
Work in Progress (2003)
Stan's Window (2003)
Seasons... (2002)
Lovesong 4 (2002)
SB (One Minute for Vienna) (2002)
Panels for the Walls of Heaven (2002)
Dark Night of the Soul (2002)
Lovesong 5 (2002)
Lovesong 6 (2002)
Ascension (2002/II)
Lovesong 3 (2002)
Max (2002/II)
Resurrectus Est (2002)
Persian Series #13 (2001)
Persian Series #14 (2001)
Persian Series #15 (2001)
Persian Series #16 (2001)
Persian Series #17 (2001)
Persian Series #18 (2001)
Lovesong (2001)
Lovesong 2 (2001)
Occam's Thread (2001)
Garden Path (2001)
Baby Jesus (2001)
Christ on Cross (2001)
In Jesus Name (2001)
Jesus Wept (2001)
Micro-Garden (2001)
Night Mulch (2001)
Rounds (2001)
Very (2001)
Dance (2000)
Persian Series #10 (2000)
Persian Series #11 (2000)
Persian Series #12 (2000)
Persian Series #6 (2000)
Persian Series #7 (2000)
Persian Series #8 (2000)
Persian Series #9 (2000)
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000)
Water for Maya (2000)
...Reel Five (1999)
Alternating Currents (1999)
Cloud Chamber (1999)
Coupling (1999)
Cricket Requiem (1999)
Moilsome Toilsome (1999)
Persian Series #1 (1999)
Persian Series #2 (1999)
Persian Series #3 (1999)
Persian Series #4 (1999)
... aka Persian #4: Floral Persian (USA: subtitle)
Persian Series #5 (1999)
Stately Mansions Did Decree (1999)
The Birds of Paradise (1999)
The Dark Tower (1999)
The Earthsong of the Cricket (1999)
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels (1999)
Worm and Web Love (1999)
Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (1998)
...Reel Four (1998)
...Reel One (1998)
...Reel Three (1998)
...Reel Two (1998)
Commingled Containers (1997)
Divertimento (1997)
Self Song/Death Song (1997)
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm (1997)
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind (1997)
Beautiful Funerals (1996)
Blue Value (1996)
Concrescence (1996)
Polite Madness (1996)
Prelude 10 (1996)
Prelude 11 (1996)
Prelude 1 (1996)
Prelude 12 (1996)
Prelude 13 (1996)
Prelude 14 (1996)
Prelude 15 (1996)
Prelude 16 (1996)
Prelude 17 (1996)
Prelude 18 (1996)
Prelude 19 (1996)
Prelude 20 (1996)
Prelude 21 (1996)
Prelude 2 (1996)
Prelude 22 (1996)
Prelude 23 (1996)
Prelude 24 (1996)
Prelude 3 (1996)
Prelude 4 (1996)
Prelude 5 (1996)
Prelude 6 (1996)
Prelude 7 (1996)
Prelude 8 (1996)
Prelude 9 (1996)
Sexual Saga (1996)
Shockingly Hot (1996)
The Fur of Home (1996)
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse (1996)
Blood Drama (1995)
Blue Black: Introspection (1995)
Earthen Aerie (1995)
I... (1995)
I Am Afraid: And This Is My Fear (1995)
In Consideration of Pompeii (1995)
Paranoia Corridor (1995)
Retrospect: The Passover (1995)
Sorrowing (1995)
Spring Cycle (1995)
The Lost Films (1995)
Black Ice (1994)
Cannot Exist (1994)
Cannot Not Exist (1994)
Elementary Phrases (1994)
First Hymn to the Night - Novalis (1994)
I Take These Truths (1994)
Naughts (1994)
The Chartres Series (1994)
The Mammals of Victoria (1994)
We Hold These (1994)
Autumnal (1993)
Blossom Gift/Favor (1993)
Ephemeral Solidity (1993)
Stellar (1993)
Study in Color and Black and White (1993)
The Harrowing (1993)
Three Homerics (1993)
Tryst Haunt (1993)
Boulder Blues and Pearls and... (1992)
Crack Glass Eulogy (1992)
For Marilyn (1992)
Interpolations I-V (1992)
A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea (1991)
Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse (1991)
Christ Mass Sex Dance (1991)
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (1991)
Vision of the Fire Tree (1991)
Babylon Series #2 (1990)
Babylon Series #3 (1990)
City Streaming (1990)
Glaze of Cathexis (1990)
Passage Through: A Ritual (1990)
The Thatch of Night (1990)
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave (1990)
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence (1990)
Babylon Series (1989)
Faust 4 (1989)
Visions in Meditation #1 (1989)
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde (1989)
I... Dreaming (1988)
Marilyn's Window (1988)
Faust 3: Candida Albacore (1988)
Faust's Other: An Idyll (1988)
Matins (1988)
Rage Net (1988)
Faustfilm: An Opera: Part I (1987)
Kindering (1987)
Loud Visual Noises (1987)
The Dante Quartet (1987)
Confession (1986)
... aka Love Sacrifice
Dance Shadows by Danielle Helander (1986)
Fireloop (1986)
Jane (1986)
Night Music (1986)
The Aerodyne (1986)
The Loom (1986)
Egyptian Series (1984)
Tortured Dust (1984)
Arabic Numeral Series 14 (1982)
Arabic Numeral Series 15 (1982)
Arabic Numeral Series 16 (1982)
Arabic Numeral Series 17 (1982)
Arabic Numeral Series 18 (1982)
Arabic Numeral Series 19 (1982)
Hell Spit Flexion (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 0 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 10 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 11 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 12 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 13 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 4 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 5 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 6 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 7 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 8 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 9 (1981)
Nodes (1981)
Roman Numeral Series IX (1981)
Roman Numeral Series VIII (1981)
RR (1981)
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981)
Unconscious London Strata (1981)
Aftermath (1980)
Arabic Numeral Series 1 (1980)
Arabic Numeral Series 2 (1980)
Arabic Numeral Series 3 (1980)
Duplicity III (1980)
Made Manifest (1980)
Murder Psalm (1980)
Other (1980)
Roman Numeral Series III (1980)
Roman Numeral Series IV (1980)
Roman Numeral Series V (1980)
Roman Numeral Series VI (1980)
Roman Numeral Series VII (1980)
Salome (1980)
Sincerity IV (1980)
Sincerity V (1980)
@ (1979)
Creation (1979)
Roman Numeral Series I (1979)
... aka I (USA: 16mm release title)
Roman Numeral Series II (1979)
... aka II (USA: 16mm release title)
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II (1978)
Bird (1978)
Burial Path (1978)
Centre (1978)
Duplicity (1978)
Duplicity II (1978)
Nightmare Series (1978)
Purity, and After (1978)
Sincerity III (1978)
Sluice (1978)
Thot-Fal'N (1978)
Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects (1977)
The Domain of the Moment (1977)
The Governor (1977)
Absence (1976)
Airs (1976)
Desert (1976)
Gadflies (1976)
Highs (1976)
Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane (1976)
Short Films: 1976 (1976)
Sketches (1976)
The Dream, NYC, the Return, the Flower (1976)
Tragoedia (1976)
Trio (1976)
Window (1976)
Short Films: 1975 #10 (1975)
... aka #10: Painted Lightning (USA: informal title)
Short Films: 1975 #1 (1975)
... aka #1: Jane's Memory (USA: informal title)
Short Films: 1975 #2 (1975)
... aka Dante's Styx (USA: informal alternative title)
Short Films: 1975 #3 (1975)
... aka #3: Hollis Frampton (USA: informal title)
Short Films: 1975 #4 (1975)
... aka #4: Jane's Memory (USA: informal title)
Short Films: 1975 #5 (1975)
... aka #5: Niagara Falls (USA: informal title)
Short Films: 1975 #6 (1975)
... aka #6: Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles (USA: informal title)
Short Films: 1975 #7 (1975)
... aka #7: Turning the Raccoon Loose (USA: informal title)
Short Films: 1975 #8 (1975)
... aka Small Town Streets (USA: informal alternative title)
Short Films: 1975 #9 (1975)
... aka Forest Love Scene (USA: informal alternative title)
Sincerity II (1975)
Aquarien (1974)
Clancy (1974)
Dominion (1974)
Flight (1974)
He Was Born, He Suffered, He Died (1974)
Hymn to Her (1974)
Skein (1974)
Sol (1974)
Star Garden (1974)
The Stars Are Beautiful (1974)
The Text of Light (1974)
Gift (1973)
Sincerity I (1973)
The Women (1973)
The Process (1972)
The Riddle of Lumen (1972)
Eye Myth Educational (1972)
Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale (1972)
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite (1972)
Sexual Meditation: Open Field (1972)
The Presence (1972)
The Shores of Phos: A Fable (1972)
The Wold Shadow (1972)
Angels' (1971)
Deus Ex (1971)
Door (1971)
Eyes (1971)
Fox Fire Child Watch (1971)
Sexual Meditation: Room with View (1971)
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)
The Peaceable Kingdom (1971)
The Trip to Door (1971)
Western History (1971)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #4 (1970)
Sexual Meditation: Hotel (1970)
Sexual Meditation No. 1: Motel (1970)
The Animals of Eden and After (1970)
The Machine of Eden (1970)
The Weir-Falcon Saga (1970)
American 30's Song (1969)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #2 (1969)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #3 (1969)
Song 27 (Part II) Rivers (1969)
Song 28 (1969)
Song 29 (1969)
Window Suite of Children's Songs (1969)
Lovemaking (1968)
My Mountain Song 27 (1968)
Song 26 (1968)
The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth (1968)
23rd Psalm Branch: Part I (1967)
Eye Myth (1967)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1 (1967)
Song 24 (1967)
Song 25 (1967)
15 Song Traits (1965)
Black Vision (1965)
Blood's Tone (1965)
Bluewhite (1965)
Fire of Waters (1965)
Pasht (1965)
Song 10 (1965)
Song 11 (1965)
Song 12 (1965)
Song 13 (1965)
Song 14 (1965)
Song 16 (1965)
Song 17 (1965)
Song 18 (1965)
Song 19 (1965)
Song 20 (1965)
Song 21 (1965)
Song 22 (1965)
Song 9 (1965)
The Art of Vision (1965)
Two: Creeley/McClure (1965)
Vein (1965)
Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)
Song 1 (1964)
Song 2 (1964)
Song 3 (1964)
Song 4 (1964)
Song 5 (1964)
Song 6 (1964)
Song 7 (1964)
Song 8 (1964)
A Woe Story (1963)
Dog Star Man: Part II (1963)
Meat Jewel (1963)
Mothlight (1963)
Oh Life (1963)
The A-Test News (1963)
Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
Window Water Baby Moving (1962)
Blue Moses (1962)
Dog Star Man: Part I (1962)
Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender (1962)
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie (1961)
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular (1961)
The Dead (1960)
Cat's Cradle (1959)
Sirius Remembered (1959)
Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959)
Anticipation of the Night (1958)
Daybreak (1957)
Loving (1957)
Whiteye (1957)
Flesh of Morning (1956)
Nightcats (1956)
Zone Moment (1956)
Centuries of June (1955)
In Between (1955)
Reflections on Black (1955)
The Wonder Ring (1955)
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding (1955)
Desistfilm (1954)
The Extraordinary Child (1954)
The Way to Shadow Garden (1954)
The Boy and the Sea (1953)
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection (1953) (as J. Stan Brakhage)
Interim (1952)

Cinematographer:

2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
1960s
1950s

Work in Progress (2003)
Stan's Window (2003)
Dance (2000)
Persian Series #9 (2000)
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000)
Water for Maya (2000)
Commingled Containers (1997)
For Marilyn (1992)
Passage Through: A Ritual (1990)
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence (1990)
Faustfilm: An Opera: Part I (1987)
Tortured Dust (1984)
Arabic Numeral Series 10 (1981)
Unconscious London Strata (1981)
Other (1980)
Salome (1980)
The Domain of the Moment (1977)
The Governor (1977)
Airs (1976)
Short Films: 1975 #2 (1975)
... aka Dante's Styx (USA: informal alternative title)
Short Films: 1975 #9 (1975)
... aka Forest Love Scene (USA: informal alternative title)
Sincerity II (1975)
Hymn to Her (1974)
The Stars Are Beautiful (1974)
The Text of Light (1974)
Nuptiae (1971)
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #4 (1970)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #2 (1969)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #3 (1969)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1 (1967)
15 Song Traits (1965)
Fire of Waters (1965)
Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
Dog Star Man: Part II (1963)
Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
Window Water Baby Moving (1962)
Blue Moses (1962)
Dog Star Man: Part I (1962)
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie (1961)
The Dead (1960)
Sirius Remembered (1959) (uncredited)
Centuries of June (1955)
In Between (1955)
Reflections on Black (1955)
The Wonder Ring (1955)
Desistfilm (1954)
The Extraordinary Child (1954)
The Way to Shadow Garden (1954)

Editor:

2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
1960s
1950s

Chinese Series (2003)
SB (One Minute for Vienna) (2002)
Resurrectus Est (2002)
Persian Series #12 (2000)
Persian Series #9 (2000)
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000)
Water for Maya (2000)
For Marilyn (1992)
Passage Through: A Ritual (1990)
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence (1990)
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde (1989)
Tortured Dust (1984)
Arabic Numeral Series 10 (1981)
Unconscious London Strata (1981)
Salome (1980)
The Governor (1977)
Short Films: 1975 #2 (1975)
... aka Dante's Styx (USA: informal alternative title)
Short Films: 1975 #9 (1975)
... aka Forest Love Scene (USA: informal alternative title)
Sincerity II (1975)
Hymn to Her (1974)
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #4 (1970)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #2 (1969)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #3 (1969)
Window Suite of Children's Songs (1969)
Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1 (1967)
Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
Dog Star Man: Part II (1963)
Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
Window Water Baby Moving (1962)
Blue Moses (1962)
The Dead (1960)
Sirius Remembered (1959) (uncredited)
Desistfilm (1954)

Actor:

1990s
1980s
1970s
1960s
1950s

Tubes of Fire (1998) (voice)
Alferd Packer: The Musical (1996) .... Noon's Father
... aka Cannibal! The Musical (USA: video title)
I... Dreaming (1988)
Tortured Dust (1984)
The Stars Are Beautiful (1974) (voice) .... Narrator
Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)
Dog Star Man: Part II (1963)
Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
Dog Star Man: Part I (1962)
Cat's Cradle (1959)
Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959)
The Extraordinary Child (1954) .... Poker Buddy

Producer:

2000s
1990s
1960s

Garden Path (2001) (co-producer)
Sand Castle II (2001) (co-producer)
Moon Streams (2000) (co-producer)
Persian Series #9 (2000) (producer)
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000) (producer)
Water for Maya (2000) (producer)
Jakob (1998) (co-producer)
Dog Star Man: Part I (1962) (producer)

Writer:

2000s
1980s
1960s

The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000) (writer)
Water for Maya (2000) (writer)
Faustfilm: An Opera: Part I (1987) (writer)
Dog Star Man: Part I (1962) (writer)

Sound Department:

1960s
1950s

Fire of Waters (1965) (sound)
Reflections on Black (1955) (sound editor)
The Way to Shadow Garden (1954) (sound designer)

Miscellaneous Crew:

2000s
1990s

Garden Path (2001) (film painter)
"The Fifties" (1997) TV mini-series (archive source)

Thanks:

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1994) (thanks)

Self:

2000s
1990s
1980s
1960s

Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability (2004) (voice) .... Himself
Brakhage: The Final Word (2004) .... Himself
Vakvagany (2002) .... Himself
Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2002) .... Himself
... aka In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Garden Path (2001) .... Himself
Jonas at the Ocean (2001) .... Himself
Keepers of the Frame (1999) .... Himself
Brakhage (1998) .... Himself
Jonas in the Desert (1994) .... Himself
Abstract Cinema (1993) (TV) .... Himself
Invocation: Maya Deren (1987) .... Himself
Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969) .... Himself
... aka Walden (USA: new title)
Window Water Baby Moving (1962) (uncredited) .... Himself

Archive Footage:

Notes on Marie Menken (2006) .... Himself
The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004) (TV) .... Himself (Memorial Tribute)
Birth of a Nation (1997) .... Himself

Additional Details

Other Works:

Author of "Essential Brakhage." Ed. Bruce R. McPherson. New York: McPherson & Company, 2001. more

Publicity Listings:

4 Biographical Movies | 10 Print Biographies | 5 Articles more

Genres:

Short | Documentary | Drama | Biography more

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film | Painted Light | Independent Short | Sequel more

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