Stan Brakhage
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 ...
Filmography
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