Directing • AGE 70
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 ...


Brakhage on Brakhage
Self
2025

Derealization
Visual Effects
2025

Brakhage by Mothlight
Self (voice)
2016

20 Little Films
Director
2012

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself
2011

Drawings by Billy and His Friends
In Memory Of
2011

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two
Director
2010

Sweetgrass
Thanks
2009

For Stan
Himself
2009

Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow
2008

Brakhage Crosses Central Park
Self
2006

A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2006

Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
Voice
2004

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One
Director
2003

Chinese Series
Director
2003

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Self (archive footage)
2003

Keeping an Eye on Stan
2003

Encomium
Self
2003

Panels for the Walls of Heaven
Director
2002

Resurrectus Est
Director
2002

Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting
2002

SB
Director
2002

Seasons...
Director
2002

Ascension
Director
2002

Song of the Mushroom
Director
2002

Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
Himself
2002

In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Himself
2002

Max
Director
2002

Persian Series #16
Director
2001

Micro-Garden
Director
2001

Garden Path
2001

Lovesong 5 & 6
Director
2001

Dark Night of The Soul
Director
2001

Lovesong 4
Director
2001

Lovesong
Director
2001

Lovesong 3
Director
2001

Occam's Thread
Director
2001

Rounds
Director
2001

Very
Director
2001

Night Mulch
Director
2001

Lovesong 2
Director
2001

Jesus Trilogy and Coda
Director
2000

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
2000

Persian Series #10
Director
2000

Persian Series #11
Director
2000

Looking at Forest of Bliss
Himself
2000

The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him
Director
2000

Water for Maya
Director
2000

Persian Series #6
Director
2000

The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels
Director
1999

Moilsome Toilsome
Director
1999

Persian Series #1
Director
1999

Persian Series #2
Director
1999

Persian Series #3
Director
1999

Persian Series #4
Director
1999

Persian Series #5
Director
1999

The Earth Song of the Cricket
Director
1999

The Dark Tower
Director
1999

The Birds Of Paradise
Director
1999

Coupling
Director
1999

Cloud Chamber
Director
1999

Worm and Web Love
Director
1999

Cricket Requiem
Director
1999

Brakhage
Self
1998

"..." Reel 3
Director
1998

"..." Reel 5
Director
1998

The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (for Gordon)
Director
1998

"..." Reel 4
Director
1998

"..." Reel 2
Director
1998

Self Song & Death Song
Director
1997

Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind
Director
1997

Birth of a Nation
Self
1997

Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos
1997

Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis
1997

The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
Director
1997

Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis
Director
1997

Divertimento
Director
1997

Comingled Containers
Director
1996

Cannibal! The Musical
Noon Sr.
1996

Prelude 7
Director
1996

Prelude 8
Director
1996

Prelude 9
Director
1996

Prelude 10
Director
1996

Prelude 11
Director
1996

Prelude 13
Director
1996

Prelude 14
Director
1996

Shockingly Hot
Director
1996

Prelude 15
Director
1996

Prelude 16
Director
1996

Prelude 17
Director
1996

Prelude 18
Director
1996

Prelude 19
Director
1996

Prelude 20
Director
1996

Prelude 21
Director
1996

Prelude 22
Director
1996

Prelude 23
Director
1996

Prelude 24
Director
1996

Blue Value
Director
1996

Sexual Saga
Director
1996

Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse
Director
1996

Polite Madness
Director
1996

The Fur of Home
Director
1996

Concrescence
Director
1996

Beautiful Funerals
Director
1996

I Take These Truths
Director
1995

I...
Director
1995

We Hold These
Director
1995

The 'b' Series
Director
1995

Prelude 1
Director
1995

Prelude 2
Director
1995

Prelude 3
Director
1995

Prelude 4
Director
1995

Prelude 5
Director
1995

Prelude 6
Director
1995

In Consideration of Pompeii
Director
1995

Spring Cycle
Director
1995

Paranoia Corridor
Director
1995

The "Lost" Films
Director
1995

Earthen Aerie
Director
1995

Black Ice
Director
1994

From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis
Director
1994

Chartres Series
Director
1994

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Thanks
1994

Jonas in the Desert
Self
1994

The Mammals of Victoria
Director
1994

Naughts
Director
1994

Elementary Phrases
Director
1994

Cannot Exist
Director
1994

Cannot Not Exist
Director
1994

Stellar
Director
1993

Study in Color and Black and White
Director
1993

Autumnal
Director
1993

Three Homerics
Director
1993

The Harrowing
Director
1993

Tryst Haunt
Director
1993

Abstract Cinema
Himself
1993

Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
Director
1993

Ephemeral Solidity
Director
1993

Blossom-Gift/Favor
Director
1993

Untitled (For Marilyn)
Director
1992

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Self
1991

Christ Mass Sex Dance
Director
1991

Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse
Director
1991

Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
Director
1991

Crack Glass Eulogy
Director
1991

A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea
Director
1991

Passage Through: A Ritual
Director
1990

Vision of the Fire Tree
Director
1990

Glaze of Cathexis
Director
1990

Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
Director
1990

Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence
Director
1990

City Streaming
Director
1990

Babylon Series #2
Director
1990

Babylon Series #3
Director
1990

The Thatch of Night
Director
1990

Babylon Series #1
Director
1989

Faust IV
Director
1989

Visions in Meditation #1
Director
1989

Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde
Director
1989

I... Dreaming
1988

Faust 3: Candida Albacore
Director
1988

Faust's Other: An Idyll
1988

Rage Net
Director
1988

Marilyn's Window
Director
1988

Matins
Director
1988

The Dante Quartet
Director
1987

Loud Visual Noises
Director
1987

Faustfilm: An Opera
Director
1987

Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
Self
1987

Kindering
Director
1987

The Loom
Director
1986

Invocation: Maya Deren
Himself
1986

Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander
Director
1986

Fireloop
Director
1986

Night Music
Director
1986

Confession
Director
1986

The Aerodyne
Director
1986

Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Self
1985

Jane
Director
1985

Tortured Dust
1984

Tortured Dust Part 1
Director
1984

Tortured Dust Part 2
Director
1984

Tortured Dust Part 3
Director
1984

Tortured Dust Part 4
Director
1984

Egyptian Series
Director
1984

Hell Spit Flexion
Director
1983

Arabic Numeral Series 14
Director
1982

Arabic Numeral Series 15
Director
1982

Arabic Numeral Series 16
Director
1982

Arabic Numeral Series 17
Director
1982

Arabic Numeral Series 18
Director
1982

Arabic Numeral Series 19
Director
1982

Nodes
Director
1981

Stan & Jane Brakhage
Self
1981

Unconscious London Strata
Director
1981

Made Manifest
Director
1981

Aftermath
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 12
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 7
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 8
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 9
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 0 + 10
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 11
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 13
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 1
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 2
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 3
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 4
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 5
Director
1981

Arabic Numeral Series 6
Director
1981

The Garden of Earthly Delights
Director
1981

RR
Director
1981

Murder Psalm
Director
1980

Duplicity III
Director
1980

Roman Numeral: IV
Director
1980

Roman Numeral: V
Director
1980

Roman Numeral: VI
Director
1980

Roman Numeral: VII
Director
1980

Roman Numeral: VIII
Director
1980

Roman Numeral: IX
Director
1980

Sincerity V
Director
1980

Other
Director
1980

Salome
Director
1980

@
Director
1979

Roman Numeral: I
Director
1979

Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Himself (voice)
1979

Roman Numeral: II
Director
1979

Sincerity IV
Director
1979

Creation
Director
1979

Roman Numeral: III
Director
1979

Burial Path
Director
1978

Thot-Fal'N
Director
1978

Bird
Director
1978

Centre
Director
1978

Nightmare Series
Director
1978

Sluice
Director
1978

Sincerity III
Director
1978

Purity and After
Director
1978

Duplicity I
Director
1978

Duplicity II
Director
1978

Tragoedia
Director
1977

Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects
Director
1977

The Domain of the Moment
Director
1977

The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower
Director
1976

Absence
Director
1976

Desert
Director
1976

Highs
Director
1976

Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane
Director
1976

Trio
Director
1976

Window
Director
1976

Airs
Director
1976

Short Films 1976
Director
1976

Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
Director
1975

Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
Director
1975

Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
Director
1975

Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)
Director
1975

Short Films 1975: #5 (Niagara Falls)
Director
1975

Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles)
Director
1975

Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
Director
1975

Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)
Director
1975

Short Films 1975
Director
1975

Sincerity II
Director
1975

Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)
Director
1975

Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)
Director
1975

The Stars Are Beautiful
Narrator (voice)
1974

The Text of Light
Director
1974

Hymn to Her
Director
1974

Star Garden
Director
1974

Skein
Director
1974

Aquarien
Director
1974

Clancy
Director
1974

Flight
Director
1974

Sol
Director
1974

“He was born, he suffered, he died.”
Director
1974

Dominion
Director
1974

Sincerity I
Director
1973

Sexual Meditation: Open Field
Director
1973

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973

The Women
Director
1973

The Process
Director
1972

Screening Room
Himself
1972

The Riddle of Lumen
Director
1972

Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale
Director
1972

Sexual Meditation: Office Suite
Director
1972

Reality's Invisible
Self
1972

The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
Director
1972

The Wold-Shadow
Director
1972

Sexual Meditation: Hotel
Director
1972

The Shores of Phos: A Fable
Director
1972

Eye Myth Educational
Director
1972

The Presence
Director
1972

Fox Fire Child Watch
Director
1971

The Trip to Door
Director
1971

Door
Director
1971

Western History
Director
1971

Sexual Meditation: Room with View
Director
1971

The Peaceable Kingdom
Director
1971

Angels'
Director
1971

Eyes
Director
1970

The Machine of Eden
Director
1970

The Animals of Eden and After
Director
1970

The Weir-Falcon Saga
Director
1970

Scenes from Under Childhood
Director
1970

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four
Director
1970

Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
Director
1970

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three
Director
1969

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two
Director
1969

My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers
Director
1969

Filmmakers
Himself
1969

Legendary Epics Yarns and Fables Part 2: Stan Brakhage
Himself
1969

Song 28
Director
1969

Song 29
Director
1969

American 30s Song
Director
1969

Window Suite of Children's Songs
Director
1969

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One
Director
1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
1968

The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth
Director
1968

Lovemaking
Director
1968

Song 26
Director
1968

My Mountain: Song 27
Director
1968

Eye Myth
Director
1967

Song 24
Director
1967

Song 25
Director
1967

For Life, Against the War
Director
1967

23rd Psalm Branch
Director
1967

23rd Psalm Branch: Part I
Director
1967

23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
Director
1967

Song 16
Director
1966

Song 17
Director
1966

Song 18
Director
1966

Song 19
Director
1966

Song 20
Director
1966

Song 21
Director
1966

Song 22
Director
1966

Pasht
Director
1966

Two: Creeley/McClure
Director
1965

Fire of Waters
Director
1965

Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
Director
1965

Song 11
Director
1965

Song 12
Director
1965

Song 13
Director
1965

Song 14
Director
1965

Black Vision
Director
1965

The Art of Vision
Man
1965

Song 10
Director
1965

Song 9
Director
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

Song 2
Director
1964

Song 3
Director
1964

Song 4
Director
1964

Song 5
Director
1964

Song 6
Director
1964

Song 7
Director
1964

Song 8
Director
1964

Mothlight
Director
1963

Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News
Director
1963

Dog Star Man: Part I
1963

Blue Moses
Director
1962

Prelude: Dog Star Man
1962

Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
Director
1961

Sartre's Nausea
Director
1961

Ballad of the Colorado Ute
Editor
1961

Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie
Director
1961

The Dead
Director
1960

Colorado Legend
Cinematography
1960

Sirius Remembered
Director
1959

Window Water Baby Moving
Self (uncredited)
1959

Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959

Pittsburgh
Cinematography
1959

Cat's Cradle
Self
1959

Anticipation of the Night
Director
1958

Loving
Director
1957

Daybreak and Whiteye
Director
1957

Flesh of Morning
1956

Trumpit
1956

The One Romantic Venture of Edward
1956

Nightcats
Director
1956

Zone Moment
Director
1956

The Wonder Ring
Director
1955

Centuries of June
Director
1955

In Between
Director
1955

The Extraordinary Child
1954

Desistfilm
Director
1954

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
Director
1953

Interim
Director
1952

Songs
Self (Uncredited)

Visions in Meditation
Director

Arabic Numeral Series
Director

Persian Series
Director