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Mothlight
1963 • Animation
Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see patterns within wings, similar t…
Why matched: genres Animation
Night Music
1986 • Animation
Part of Three Hand-Painted Films, Night Music (originally painted on IMAX) attempts to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when closed in meditation on sorrow.
Why matched: genres Animation
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959 • Romance
We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home. It's night, she sees hi…
Why matched: genres Romance
Prelude: Dog Star Man
1962 • Drama • Fantasy
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and…
Why matched: genres Drama, Fantasy
Kindering
1987
Refracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl. There's a dog, a swing, a picket fence, a Big Wheels trike…
Why matched: semantic similarity
Cat's Cradle
1959
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally…
Why matched: semantic similarity
Desistfilm
1954 • Drama
Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door opens and in comes a young man…
Why matched: genres Drama
Dog Star Man
1965 • Fantasy
Experimental film following a cycle of seasons as well as the stretch of a single day as a man and his dog slowly ascend a mountain.
Why matched: genres Fantasy
Window Water Baby Moving
1959 • Documentary
On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and hi…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
1961 • Documentary
Only at a crisis do I see both the scene as I've been trained to see it ( that is, with Renaissance perspective, three-dimensional logic–colors as we've been trained to call a c…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Eye Myth
1967 • Animation
After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid change in the images. Two figures…
Why matched: genres Animation
Crack Glass Eulogy
1991
A nostalgic envisionment of city living - the potential shards of memory seen as if always on the verge of cutting the mind to pieces.
Why matched: semantic similarity
The Dante Quartet
1987 • Animation
A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a white background; the speed…
Why matched: genres Animation
The Process
1972
This film by Stan Brakhage investigates the process of memory and thought by melting a series of images and a field of color. The positive-negative flickering graphs a sort of…
Matched on: Brakhage
Black Ice
1994 • Animation
Inspired by a bad fall on a patch of black ice (that ultimately resulted in Brakhage's need for eye surgery), the filmmaker gives us something of a dreamlike descent through the…
Matched on: Brakhage
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1972 • Documentary
At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. "S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, t…
Matched on: Brakhage
The Wold-Shadow
1972
A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in the shadows? Something green is…
Why matched: semantic similarity
Lovesong
2001
This lush, sensuous film is based on paintings of unusual variety and intricacy. Brakhage's desire to include all the complexities of living in his work is evident in this "love…
Matched on: Brakhage
The Garden of Earthly Delights
1981 • Animation
A collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem, leaf, bud, or petal. Often…
Why matched: genres Animation
Stellar
1993 • Animation
This is 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 frame…
Why matched: genres Animation