Stan Brakhage Movies

  • 1994
    Cannot Exist

    Cannot Exist

    Cannot Exist

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    The hand-painting of this film is interrupted by, and interspersed with, a geometrically structured Mask of Death (one of those frightening human...

    Cannot Exist
  • 1996
    Prelude 24

    Prelude 24

    Prelude 24

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    Prelude 24 returns to the tempo of single-frame printing. Its shapes and forms are composed of nearly black torques of ink, flickering with white and...

    Prelude 24
  • 2000
    Persian Series #8

    Persian Series #8

    Persian Series #8

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    Pale petal and stem-like shapes counter punted rhythmically by an even paler "background" of truly ephemeral of truly ephemeral (almost invisible)...

    Persian Series #8
  • 1976
    Gadflies

    Gadflies

    Gadflies

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    "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
  • 2001
    Occam's Thread

    Occam's Thread

    Occam's Thread

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    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
  • 1979
    Sincerity IV

    Sincerity IV

    Sincerity IV

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    This, the sixth film of the SINCERITY/DUPLICITY series, seems rooted in the earliest tradition of my work, Psycho-Drama, as well as in the most...

    Sincerity IV