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Stan Brakhage Directed Filmography (378)
20 Little Films
2012·Director
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two
2010·Director
Chinese Series
2003·Director
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One
2003·Director
Stan's Window & Work in Progress
2003·Director
Song of the Mushroom
2002·Director
Seasons...
2002·Director
Panels for the Walls of Heaven
2002·Director
Ascension
2002·Director
Resurrectus Est
2002·Director
SB
2002·Director
Max
2002·Director
Lovesong
2001·Director
Rounds
2001·Director
Garden Path
2001·Director
Persian Series #13
2001·Director
Persian Series #15
2001·Director
Persian Series #17
2001·Director
Persian Series #14
2001·Director
Persian Series #16
2001·Director
Persian Series #18
2001·Director
Dark Night of The Soul
2001·Director
Lovesong 4
2001·Director
Lovesong 3
2001·Director
Lovesong 5 & 6
2001·Director
Occam's Thread
2001·Director
Micro Garden
2001·Director
Very
2001·Director
Night Mulch
2001·Director
Lovesong 2
2001·Director
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him
2000·Director
Water for Maya
2000·Director
Persian Series #8
2000·Director
Persian Series #7
2000·Director
Persian Series #11
2000·Director
Persian Series #9
2000·Director
Persian Series #12
2000·Director
Persian Series #10
2000·Director
Persian Series #6
2000·Director
Jesus Trilogy and Coda
2000·Director
Dance
2000·Director
The Dark Tower
1999·Director
The Birds Of Paradise
1999·Director
Coupling
1999·Director
Stately Mansions Did Decree
1999·Director
Persian Series #1
1999·Director
Persian Series #3
1999·Director
Persian Series #2
1999·Director
Persian Series #4
1999·Director
Persian Series #5
1999·Director
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels
1999·Director
Cloud Chamber
1999·Director
Worm and Web Love
1999·Director
Moilsome Toilsome
1999·Director
The Earthsong of the Cricket
1999·Director
Cricket Requiem
1999·Director
"..." Reel 5
1998·Director
"..." Reel 3
1998·Director
"..." Reel 4
1998·Director
"..." Reel 1
1998·Director
"..." Reel 2
1998·Director
The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (for Gordon)
1998·Director
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
1997·Director
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind
1997·Director
Self Song & Death Song
1997·Director
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis
1997·Director
Divertimento
1997·Director
Comingled Containers
1996·Director
Shockingly Hot
1996·Director
Prelude 10
1996·Director
Prelude 11
1996·Director
Prelude 8
1996·Director
Prelude 9
1996·Director
Prelude 12
1996·Director
Prelude 7
1996·Director
Prelude 13
1996·Director
Prelude 14
1996·Director
Prelude 16
1996·Director
Prelude 15
1996·Director
Prelude 23
1996·Director
Prelude 18
1996·Director
Prelude 19
1996·Director
Prelude 20
1996·Director
Prelude 21
1996·Director
Prelude 17
1996·Director
Prelude 22
1996·Director
Prelude 24
1996·Director
Blue Value
1996·Director
Sexual Saga
1996·Director
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse
1996·Director
Beautiful Funerals
1996·Director
Polite Madness
1996·Director
Concrescence
1996·Director
Through Wounded Eyes
1996·Director
The Fur of Home
1996·Director
I Take These Truths
1995·Director
The 'b' Series
1995·Director
Prelude 2
1995·Director
Prelude 4
1995·Director
Prelude 3
1995·Director
Prelude 1
1995·Director
Prelude 5
1995·Director
Prelude 6
1995·Director
I...
1995·Director
In Consideration of Pompeii
1995·Director
We Hold These
1995·Director
Spring Cycle
1995·Director
Paranoia Corridor
1995·Director
The "Lost" Films
1995·Director
Earthen Aerie
1995·Director
Black Ice
1994·Director
From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis
1994·Director
The Mammals of Victoria
1994·Director
Naughts
1994·Director
Elementary Phrases
1994·Director
Chartres Series
1994·Director
Cannot Exist
1994·Director
Cannot Not Exist
1994·Director
Alternating Currents
1994·Director
Study in Color and Black and White
1993·Director
Stellar
1993·Director
Autumnal
1993·Director
Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
1993·Director
Ephemeral Solidity
1993·Director
Three Homerics
1993·Director
The Harrowing
1993·Director
Tryst Haunt
1993·Director
Blossom-Gift/Favor
1993·Director
Untitled (For Marilyn)
1992·Director
Interpolations 1-5
1992·Director
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
1991·Director
Crack Glass Eulogy
1991·Director
A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea
1991·Director
Christ Mass Sex Dance
1991·Director
Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse
1991·Director
Glaze of Cathexis
1990·Director
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence
1990·Director
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
1990·Director
Passage Through: A Ritual
1990·Director
City Streaming
1990·Director
Babylon Series #3
1990·Director
Babylon Series #2
1990·Director
Vision of the Fire Tree
1990·Director
The Thatch of Night
1990·Director
Visions in Meditation #1
1989·Director
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde
1989·Director
Babylon Series #1
1989·Director
Faust IV
1989·Director
Faust's Other: An Idyll
1988·Director
Rage Net
1988·Director
I... Dreaming
1988·Director
Marilyn's Window
1988·Director
Faust 3: Candida Albacore
1988·Director
Matins
1988·Director
Kindering
1987·Director
The Dante Quartet
1987·Director
Loud Visual Noises
1987·Director
Faustfilm: An Opera
1987·Director
Night Music
1986·Director
The Loom
1986·Director
Confession
1986·Director
Fireloop
1986·Director
The Aerodyne
1986·Director
Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander
1986·Director
Jane
1985·Director
Egyptian Series
1984·Director
Tortured Dust
1984·Director
Tortured Dust Part 2
1984·Director
Tortured Dust Part 4
1984·Director
Tortured Dust Part 1
1984·Director
Tortured Dust Part 3
1984·Director
Hell Spit Flexion
1983·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 18
1982·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 14
1982·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 15
1982·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 17
1982·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 16
1982·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 19
1982·Director
The Garden of Earthly Delights
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 12
1981·Director
Unconscious London Strata
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 4
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 1
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 2
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 3
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 5
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 6
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 9
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 8
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 11
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 7
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 0 + 10
1981·Director
Arabic Numeral Series 13
1981·Director
Made Manifest
1981·Director
RR
1981·Director
Aftermath
1981·Director
Nodes
1981·Director
Murder Psalm
1980·Director
Duplicity III
1980·Director
Roman Numeral: VI
1980·Director
Roman Numeral: V
1980·Director
Roman Numeral: VII
1980·Director
Roman Numeral: IV
1980·Director
Roman Numeral: IX
1980·Director
Roman Numeral: VIII
1980·Director
4A
1980·Director
Sincerity V
1980·Director
Other
1980·Director
Salome
1980·Director
Creation
1979·Director
Roman Numeral: II
1979·Director
Roman Numeral: I
1979·Director
Roman Numeral: III
1979·Director
@
1979·Director
Sincerity IV
1979·Director
Burial Path
1978·Director
Thot-Fal'N
1978·Director
Bird
1978·Director
Centre
1978·Director
Nightmare Series
1978·Director
Sluice
1978·Director
Duplicity I
1978·Director
Sincerity III
1978·Director
Purity and After
1978·Director
Duplicity II
1978·Director
The Domain of the Moment
1977·Director
The Governor
1977·Director
Tragoedia
1977·Director
Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects
1977·Director
Gadflies
1976·Director
Desert
1976·Director
Window
1976·Director
Sketches
1976·Director
Highs
1976·Director
Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane
1976·Director
Absence
1976·Director
Trio
1976·Director
The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower
1976·Director
Short Films 1976
1976·Director
Airs
1976·Director
Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
1975·Director
Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
1975·Director
Short Films 1975: #5 (Niagara Falls)
1975·Director
Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)
1975·Director
Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
1975·Director
Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles)
1975·Director
Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)
1975·Director
Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
1975·Director
Short Films 1975
1975·Director
Sincerity II
1975·Director
Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)
1975·Director
Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)
1975·Director
The Stars Are Beautiful
1974·Director
The Text of Light
1974·Director
Star Garden
1974·Director
Aquarien
1974·Director
Skein
1974·Director
Clancy
1974·Director
Flight
1974·Director
Hymn to Her
1974·Director
“He was born, he suffered, he died.”
1974·Director
Sol
1974·Director
Dominion
1974·Director
The Women
1973·Director
Sincerity I
1973·Director
Sexual Meditation: Open Field
1973·Director
Gift
1973·Director
The Wold-Shadow
1972·Director
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1972·Director
The Process
1972·Director
The Riddle of Lumen
1972·Director
Wecht
1972·Director
Sexual Meditation: Hotel
1972·Director
The Shores of Phos: A Fable
1972·Director
Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale
1972·Director
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite
1972·Director
Eye Myth Educational
1972·Director
The Presence
1972·Director
Deus Ex
1971·Director
Western History
1971·Director
Sexual Meditation: Room with View
1971·Director
Door
1971·Director
The Peaceable Kingdom
1971·Director
Angels'
1971·Director
Fox Fire Child Watch
1971·Director
The Trip to Door
1971·Director
The Machine of Eden
1970·Director
The Weir-Falcon Saga
1970·Director
Eyes
1970·Director
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four
1970·Director
The Animals of Eden and After
1970·Director
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
1970·Director
Scenes from Under Childhood
1970·Director
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two
1969·Director
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three
1969·Director
Song 28
1969·Director
Song 29
1969·Director
My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers
1969·Director
American 30s Song
1969·Director
Window Suite of Children's Songs
1969·Director
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One
1968·Director
The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth
1968·Director
Lovemaking
1968·Director
Song 26
1968·Director
My Mountain: Song 27
1968·Director
Eye Myth
1967·Director
Song 24
1967·Director
Song 25
1967·Director
23rd Psalm Branch
1967·Director
23rd Psalm Branch: Part I
1967·Director
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
1967·Director
For Life, Against the War
1967·Director
Pasht
1966·Director
Song 18
1966·Director
Song 19
1966·Director
Song 21
1966·Director
Song 22
1966·Director
Song 20
1966·Director
Song 16
1966·Director
Song 17
1966·Director
The Art of Vision
1965·Director
Two: Creeley/McClure
1965·Director
Fire of Waters
1965·Director
Song 9
1965·Director
Song 14
1965·Director
Song 10
1965·Director
Song 12
1965·Director
Song 13
1965·Director
Song 11
1965·Director
Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
1965·Director
15 Song Traits
1965·Director
Black Vision
1965·Director
Dog Star Man
1965·Director
Dog Star Man: Part II
1964·Director
Dog Star Man: Part III
1964·Director
Dog Star Man: Part IV
1964·Director
Song 1
1964·Director
Song 6
1964·Director
Song 7
1964·Director
Song 2
1964·Director
Song 3
1964·Director
Song 4
1964·Director
Song 5
1964·Director
Song 8
1964·Director
Dog Star Man: Part I
1963·Director
Mothlight
1963·Director
Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News
1963·Director
Prelude: Dog Star Man
1962·Director
Blue Moses
1962·Director
Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender
1962·Director
Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
1962·Director
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
1961·Director
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie
1961·Director
Sartre's Nausea
1961·Director
Ballad of the Colorado Ute
1961·Director
The Dead
1960·Director
Colorado Legend
1960·Director
Window Water Baby Moving
1959·Director
Cat's Cradle
1959·Director
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959·Director
Sirius Remembered
1959·Director
Anticipation of the Night
1958·Director
Loving
1957·Director
Daybreak and Whiteye
1957·Director
Flesh of Morning
1956·Director
Nightcats
1956·Director
Zone Moment
1956·Director
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
1955·Director
Centuries of June
1955·Director
The Wonder Ring
1955·Director
Reflections on Black
1955·Director
In Between
1955·Director
Desistfilm
1954·Director
The Way to Shadow Garden
1954·Director
The Extraordinary Child
1954·Director
The Boy and the Sea
1953·Director
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
1953·Director
Interim
1952·Director