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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