Official Description: Working completely outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he has turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all, as he pioneered the art of making images directly on film, by drawing, painting, and scratching. Criterion is proud to present twenty-six masterworks by Stan Brakhage.
Distributor: Criterion
Availability: Amazon
Also Available on Blu-Ray: Amazon
Contents:
Disc One:
- Desistfilm
1954 • 6 minutes, 48 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural - Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959 • 10 minutes, 47 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Dog Star Man
1961–64 • 74 minutes, 34 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes
1971 • 31 minutes, 50 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Disc Two:
- Cat’s Cradle
1959 • 6 minutes, 16 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Window Water Baby Moving
1959 • 12 minutes, 11 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Mothlight
1963 • 3 minutes, 13 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Eye Myth
1967 • 9 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - The Wold-Shadow
1972 • 2 minutes, 24 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - The Garden of Earthly Delights
1981 • 1 minute, 43 seconds • 35 mm • Silent - The Stars Are Beautiful
1974 • 18 minutes, 27 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural - Kindering
1987 • 2 minutes, 51 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural - I …. Dreaming
1988 • 6 minutes, 35 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural - The Dante Quartet
1987 • 6 minutes, 3 seconds • 35 mm • Silent - Night Music
1986 • 30 seconds • 35 mm • Silent - Rage Net
1988 • 35 seconds • 35 mm • Silent - Glaze of Cathexis
1990 • 2 minutes, 55 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
1990 • 8 minutes, 16 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Untitled (For Marilyn)
1992 • 10 minutes, 27 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Black Ice
1994 • 1 minute, 49 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Study in Color and Black and White
1993 • 1 minute, 35 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Stellar
1993 • 2 minutes, 19 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Crack Glass Eulogy
1991 • 6 minutes, 6 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural - The Dark Tower
1999 • 2 minutes, 19 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Commingled Containers
1996 • 2 minutes, 42 seconds • 16 mm • Silent - Lovesong
2001 • 10 minutes, 48 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Extras:
- Brakhage on Brakhage, four video encounters with the filmmaker
- Audio remarks on selected films by Stan Brakhage
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film capsules by Brakhage expert Fred Camper
