Filmography
Screening Room
1972 · Acting
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · Acting
Dog Star Man
1965 · Director, Writer, Acting
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Acting
Legendary Epics Yarns and Fables Part 2: Stan Brakhage
1969 · Acting
Looking at Forest of Bliss
2000 · Acting
20 Little Films
2012 · Director
Cannibal! The Musical
1996 · Acting
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Acting
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Acting
Prelude: Dog Star Man
1961 · Director, Acting
Jonas in the Desert
1994 · Acting
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
1979 · Acting
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1972 · Director
Mothlight
1963 · Director
Faust IV
1989 · Director
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Director
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One
1968 · Director
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1985 · Acting
Dog Star Man: Part III
1964 · Director, Acting
Window Water Baby Moving
1959 · Director, Acting
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959 · Director, Acting
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973 · Acting
The Making of an Underground Film
1965 · Acting
Dog Star Man: Part IV
1964 · Director, Acting
- No Poster
Keepers of the Frame
1999 · Acting
- No Poster
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022 · Acting
Dog Star Man: Part I
1963 · Director, Acting
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002 · Acting
Egyptian Series
1984 · Director
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991 · Acting
Passage Through: A Ritual
1990 · Director, Writer
Elementary Phrases
1994 · Director
Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale
1972 · Director
Brakhage
1998 · Acting
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011 · Acting
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003 · Acting
Filmmakers
1969 · Acting
Anticipation of the Night
1958 · Director
Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
1965 · Director
Faust's Other: An Idyll
1988 · Director, Acting
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two
2010 · Director, Writer, Acting
The Art of Vision
1965 · Director, Writer, Acting
Vision of the Fire Tree
1990 · Director
Cat's Cradle
1959 · Director, Acting
Ballad of the Colorado Ute
1961 · Director
Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
2004 · Acting
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
1987 · Acting
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
1967 · Director
The Machine of Eden
1970 · Director
The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower
1976 · Director
Study in Color and Black and White
1993 · Director
Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
1975 · Director
Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander
1986 · Director
The Stars Are Beautiful
1974 · Director, Writer, Acting
23rd Psalm Branch: Part I
1967 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 5
1981 · Director
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence
1990 · Director
The Mammals of Victoria
1994 · Director
Clancy
1974 · Director
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One
2003 · Director, Writer, Acting
From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis
1994 · Director
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
1953 · Director, Writer
The Animals of Eden and After
1970 · Director
Sol
1974 · Director
Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
2002 · Acting
Keeping an Eye on Stan
2003 · Acting
The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth
1968 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 3
1981 · Director
Flesh of Morning
1956 · Director, Acting
Concrescence
1996 · Director
Thot-Fal'N
1978 · Director
My Mountain: Song 27
1968 · Director
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
1997 · Director
Unconscious London Strata
1981 · Director
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
1956 · Acting
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 · Acting
Loving
1957 · Director
Two: Creeley/McClure
1965 · Director
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
2006 · Acting
SB
2002 · Director
Seasons...
2002 · Director
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite
1972 · Director
My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers
1969 · Director
The Domain of the Moment
1977 · Director
Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow
2008 · Acting
- No Poster
Notes on Marie Menken
2006 · Acting
Arabic Numeral Series 13
1981 · Director
Airs
1976 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 4
1981 · Director
Self Song & Death Song
1997 · Director
Murder Psalm
1980 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 0 + 10
1981 · Director
The Riddle of Lumen
1972 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 15
1982 · Director
The Weir-Falcon Saga
1970 · Director
Prelude 20
1996 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 11
1981 · Director
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2006 · Acting
- No Poster
Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
1962 · Director, Writer
Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects
1977 · Director
Christ Mass Sex Dance
1991 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 1
1981 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 9
1981 · Director
Dog Star Man: Part II
1964 · Director, Acting
Tortured Dust Part 2
1984 · Director
- No Poster
Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender
1962 · Director
- No Poster
Stately Mansions Did Decree
1999 · Director
Window Suite of Children's Songs
1969 · Director
Song 17
1966 · Director
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
1991 · Director
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde
1989 · Director
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four
1970 · Director
Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News
1963 · Director
Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse
1991 · Director
Glaze of Cathexis
1990 · Director
Naughts
1994 · Director
Max
2002 · Director
Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)
1975 · Director
The Fur of Home
1996 · Director
The Text of Light
1974 · Director
Short Films 1975: #5 (Niagara Falls)
1975 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 7
1981 · Director
Garden Path
2001 · Director, Acting
Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles)
1975 · Director
The Shores of Phos: A Fable
1972 · Director
"..." Reel 3
1998 · Director
Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos
1997 · Acting
Visions in Meditation #1
1989 · Director
In Consideration of Pompeii
1995 · Director
Panels for the Walls of Heaven
2002 · Director
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him
2000 · Director
Scenes from Under Childhood
1970 · Director
The Garden of Earthly Delights
1981 · Director
Prelude 8
1996 · Director
Jesus Trilogy and Coda
2000 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 17
1982 · Director
Dark Night of The Soul
2001 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 16
1982 · Director
The Extraordinary Child
1954 · Director, Writer, Acting
For Marilyn
1992 · Director
Sluice
1978 · Director
“He was born, he suffered, he died.”
1974 · Director
The Thatch of Night
1990 · Director
Reality's Invisible
1972 · Acting
Prelude 19
1996 · Director
- No Poster
Z (Zee Not Zed)
1993 · Acting
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
1961 · Director
Shockingly Hot
1996 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 14
1982 · Director
@
1979 · Director
Desistfilm
1954 · Director, Writer
Worm and Web Love
1999 · Director
- No Poster
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
1955 · Director
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie
1961 · Director
Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis
1997 · Acting
Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)
1975 · Director
Song of the Mushroom
2002 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 6
1981 · Director
- No Poster
I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)
1998 · Acting
Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane
1976 · Director
Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
1975 · Director
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
1970 · Director
Prelude 16
1996 · Director
Interim
1952 · Director, Writer
The Dante Quartet
1987 · Director
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three
1969 · Director
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels
1999 · Director
Pasht
1966 · Director
Kindering
1987 · Director
The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (for Gordon)
1998 · Director
- No Poster
The Way to Shadow Garden
1954 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Dance
2000 · Director
The Wonder Ring
1955 · Director
Blossom-Gift/Favor
1993 · Director
Tortured Dust Part 4
1984 · Director
Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
1975 · Director
Sexual Meditation: Room with View
1971 · Director
The Dark Tower
1999 · Director
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis
1997 · Director
Song 4
1964 · Director
I... Dreaming
1988 · Director, Acting
Song 14
1965 · Director
Faust 3: Candida Albacore
1988 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series 1-5
Director
The Dead
1960 · Director
- No Poster
The Governor
1977 · Director
Sincerity III
1978 · Director
Nightcats
1956 · Director
Sexual Saga
1996 · Director
- No Poster
Gift
1973 · Director
Angels'
1971 · Director
Sirius Remembered
1959 · Director
Song 18
1966 · Director
Earthen Aerie
1995 · Director
- No Poster
Vakvagany
2002 · Acting
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two
1969 · Director
American 30s Song
1969 · Director
The Trip to Door
1971 · Director
City Streaming
1990 · Director
Roman Numeral: VII
1980 · Director
Prelude 15
1996 · Director
Persian Series #1
1999 · Director
The Peaceable Kingdom
1971 · Director
Prelude 13
1996 · Director
Prelude 17
1996 · Director
Other
1980 · Director
Song 5
1964 · Director
Faustfilm: An Opera
1987 · Director
The Earth Song of the Cricket
1999 · Director
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind
1997 · Director
Prelude 4
1995 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 18
1982 · Director
The Wold-Shadow
1972 · Director
Micro-Garden
2001 · Director
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse
1996 · Director
Song 8
1964 · Director
Blue Moses
1962 · Director, Writer
Matins
1988 · Director
Song 20
1966 · Director
Tortured Dust Part 3
1984 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 8
1981 · Director
Sexual Meditation: Hotel
1972 · Director
Resurrectus Est
2002 · Director
Door
1971 · Director
The Birds Of Paradise
1999 · Director
Fox Fire Child Watch
1971 · Director
Rage Net
1988 · Director
Prelude 11
1996 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 19
1982 · Director
Roman Numeral: IX
1980 · Director
The Loom
1986 · Director
Daybreak and Whiteye
1957 · Director
Comingled Containers
1996 · Director
Marilyn's Window
1988 · Director
Prelude 7
1996 · Director
Sexual Meditation: Open Field
1973 · Director
The Women
1973 · Director
Babylon Series #2
1990 · Director
"..." Reel 4
1998 · Director
Cloud Chamber
1999 · Director
Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)
1975 · Director
Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
1975 · Director
- No Poster
Alternating Currents
1994 · Director
We Hold These
1995 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 2
1981 · Director
- No Poster
The Boy and the Sea
1953 · Director
Persian Series #6
2000 · Director
Nightmare Series
1978 · Director
Eyes
1970 · Director
Water for Maya
2000 · Director
- No Poster
Stan's Window & Work in Progress
2003 · Director
Roman Numeral: IV
1980 · Director
The 'b' Series
1995 · Director
Duplicity II
1978 · Director
Stellar
1993 · Director
Colorado Legend
1960 · Director
Sincerity I
1973 · Director
Song 22
1966 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series #17
2001 · Director
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
1990 · Director
Creation
1979 · Director
Zone Moment
1956 · Director
I Take These Truths
1995 · Director
Tryst Haunt
1993 · Director
Purity and After
1978 · Director
Western History
1971 · Director
Song 21
1966 · Director
23rd Psalm Branch
1967 · Director
"..." Reel 2
1998 · Director
- No Poster
Reflections on Black
1955 · Director, Writer
Occam's Thread
2001 · Director
Sartre's Nausea
1961 · Director
Persian Series #5
1999 · Director
Lovesong 2
2001 · Director
Highs
1976 · Director
Song 24
1967 · Director
Song 1
1964 · Director, Acting
Hymn to Her
1974 · Director
Centre
1978 · Director
Trumpit
1956 · Acting
Brakhage on Brakhage
2025 · Acting
Roman Numeral: VIII
1980 · Director
Song 10
1965 · Director
Persian Series #3
1999 · Director
The Aerodyne
1986 · Director
Fireloop
1986 · Director
Spring Cycle
1995 · Director
Cannot Exist
1994 · Director
Babylon Series #3
1990 · Director
Song 29
1969 · Director
Persian Series #11
2000 · Director
Coupling
1999 · Director
- No Poster
Interpolations 1-5
1992 · Director
Black Ice
1994 · Director
Song 26
1968 · Director
Persian Series #4
1999 · Director
Prelude 22
1996 · Director
Song 25
1967 · Director
Beautiful Funerals
1996 · Director
Polite Madness
1996 · Director
Encomium
2003 · Acting
Roman Numeral: VI
1980 · Director
Roman Numeral: II
1979 · Director
Divertimento
1997 · Director
Prelude 3
1995 · Director
Confession
1986 · Director
Duplicity I
1978 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series #15
2001 · Director
Moilsome Toilsome
1999 · Director
Bird
1978 · Director
Arabic Numeral Series 12
1981 · Director
Burial Path
1978 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series #13
2001 · Director
Cannot Not Exist
1994 · Director
Flight
1974 · Director
Centuries of June
1955 · Director
- No Poster
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2003 · Acting
RR
1981 · Director
Blue Value
1996 · Director
Song 16
1966 · Director
- No Poster
BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE
1996 · Acting
Autumnal
1993 · Director
The Presence
1972 · Director
Rounds
2001 · Director
Prelude 9
1996 · Director
Ascension
2002 · Director
Crack Glass Eulogy
1991 · Director
Song 9
1965 · Director
Black Vision
1965 · Director
Prelude 23
1996 · Director
Night Mulch
2001 · Director
Prelude 10
1996 · Director
Skein
1974 · Director
Fire of Waters
1965 · Director
Brakhage by Mothlight
2016 · Acting
Song 19
1966 · Director
Sincerity IV
1979 · Director
Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
1993 · Director
Babylon Series #1
1989 · Director
For Stan
2009 · Acting
Tortured Dust Part 1
1984 · Director
- No Poster
15 Song Traits
1965 · Director
Sincerity V
1980 · Director
Song 11
1965 · Director
In Between
1955 · Director, Writer
Tragoedia
1977 · Director
The Process
1972 · Director
- No Poster
As Is Was
1995 · Acting
Short Films 1975
1975 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series #14
2001 · Director
Window
1976 · Director
"..." Reel 5
1998 · Director
- No Poster
"..." Reel 1
1998 · Director
Stan & Jane Brakhage
1981 · Acting
The "Lost" Films
1995 · Director
Lovemaking
1968 · Director
Prelude 24
1996 · Director
Roman Numeral: V
1980 · Director
Lovesong 4
2001 · Director
Song 2
1964 · Director
Cricket Requiem
1999 · Director
Eye Myth
1967 · Director
Three Homerics
1993 · Director
Jane
1985 · Director
The Harrowing
1993 · Director
Night Music
1986 · Director
- No Poster
Deus Ex
1971 · Director
Tortured Dust
1984 · Director, Acting
Sincerity II
1975 · Director
Abstract Cinema
1993 · Acting
Prelude 2
1995 · Director
Prelude 18
1996 · Director
Roman Numeral: I
1979 · Director
A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea
1991 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series #7
2000 · Director
Song 28
1969 · Director
Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)
1975 · Director
Made Manifest
1981 · Director
Prelude 14
1996 · Director
Persian Series #2
1999 · Director
- No Poster
Watunna
1989 · Acting
Persian Series #16
2001 · Director
Trio
1976 · Director
Hell Spit Flexion
1983 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series #12
2000 · Director
Absence
1976 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series #9
2000 · Director
- No Poster
Gadflies
1976 · Director
Nodes
1981 · Director
Chartres Series
1994 · Director
Salome
1980 · Director
- No Poster
Through Wounded Eyes
1996 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series #18
2001 · Director
Song 12
1965 · Director
Aquarien
1974 · Director
Song 3
1964 · Director
Prelude 5
1995 · Director
Lovesong 3
2001 · Director
Roman Numeral: III
1979 · Director
I...
1995 · Director
Chinese Series
2003 · Director
Very
2001 · Director
Eye Myth Educational
1972 · Director, Writer
Prelude 6
1995 · Director
- No Poster
Wecht
1972 · Director
Song 7
1964 · Director
Short Films 1976
1976 · Director
- No Poster
Persian Series #8
2000 · Director
Persian Series #10
2000 · Director
Paranoia Corridor
1995 · Director
Dominion
1974 · Director
- No Poster
Sketches
1976 · Director
Lovesong 5 & 6
2001 · Director
Ephemeral Solidity
1993 · Director
Desert
1976 · Director
- No Poster
4A
1980 · Director
Loud Visual Noises
1987 · Director
Aftermath
1981 · Director
Prelude 1
1995 · Director
Lovesong
2001 · Director
- No Poster
Prelude 12
1996 · Director
Duplicity III
1980 · Director
Song 6
1964 · Director
Song 13
1965 · Director
Prelude 21
1996 · Director
Star Garden
1974 · Director
Visions in Meditation
Director
Arabic Numeral Series
Director
Persian Series
Director
Songs
Director, Writer, Acting