Movies

  • 1976
    Trio

    Trio

    Trio

    81976HD

    A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle. The second movement is composed of...

    Trio
  • 1967
    Song 25

    Song 25

    Song 25

    8.51967HD

    SONGS 24 & 25: A naked boy and flute song; a being about nature (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental...

    Song 25
  • 1972
    The Presence

    The Presence

    The Presence

    91972HD

    The Presence reflects some sight of Insect as Being. The Imagined aura and environment of a beetle creates a 'world' wherein this solitary insect may...

    The Presence
  • 1976
    Gadflies

    Gadflies

    Gadflies

    01976HD

    "Gadflies, a record of a reunion of a group of old high school friends, is filmed with an eye toward the rhythms of conversation, of group...

    Gadflies
  • 1999
    Persian Series #3

    Persian Series #3

    Persian Series #3

    5.61999HD

    Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both...

    Persian Series #3
  • 1996
    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    6.11996HD

    Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

    Prelude 11
  • 1966
    Song 16

    Song 16

    Song 16

    6.31966HD

    SONG 16: A flowering of sex as in the mind’s eye, a joy (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker...

    Song 16
  • 1974
    Skein

    Skein

    Skein

    8.51974HD

    'A loosely coiled length of yarn (story) ... wound on a reel' -- my parenthesis! This is a painted film (inspired by unpainted pictures): 'skins' of...

    Skein
  • 1965
    Song 12

    Song 12

    Song 12

    4.51965HD

    SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan...

    Song 12
  • 1980
    Salome

    Salome

    Salome

    71980HD

    Portrait of the great chess master, aesthetician, human being, Eugene Salome.

    Salome
  • 1985
    Jane

    Jane

    Jane

    4.71985HD

    Someone said to me, of this film, that it was really about light; but Jane (who takes it as a portrait – i. e., sees herself in it) said: You...

    Jane
  • 2001
    Occam's Thread

    Occam's Thread

    Occam's Thread

    82001HD

    This is a hand painted, step printed work which views Occam's economical vision of life (The Razor's Edge') as something more thread-like: a...

    Occam's Thread
  • 1995
    Prelude 3

    Prelude 3

    Prelude 3

    5.21995HD

    Many white interruptive frames and absolutely straight-edged multi-colored lines amidst "clouds" of color, finally thickened into blobs with lengthy...

    Prelude 3
  • 1993
    Three Homerics

    Three Homerics

    Three Homerics

    5.51993HD

    This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

    Three Homerics
  • 2000
    Persian Series #10

    Persian Series #10

    Persian Series #10

    5.62000HD

    "Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The...

    Persian Series #10
  • 1979
    Creation

    Creation

    Creation

    61979HD

    "The ecstatic, mythic montage of Alaskan landscapes" is also "about the act of making" and an antidote to the stodgy notion that life crawled forth...

    Creation
  • 1995
    Prelude 5

    Prelude 5

    Prelude 5

    5.31995HD

    This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are...

    Prelude 5
  • 1990
    Babylon Series #3

    Babylon Series #3

    Babylon Series #3

    81990HD

    This is an architectural garden of the variably brash rock-solid liquid-encompassing, but always imitative, human mind as it processes the given...

    Babylon Series #3
  • 1980
    4A

    4A

    4A

    01980HD

    A hand-painted Brakhage film made specifically for Anthology Film Archives.

    4A
  • 1986
    The Aerodyne

    The Aerodyne

    The Aerodyne

    81986HD

    At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain,...

    The Aerodyne