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

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Contents:

Disc One:

1. Desistfilm
   1954 • 6 minutes, 48 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
2. Wedlock House: An Intercourse
   1959 • 10 minutes, 47 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
3. Dog Star Man
   1961–64 • 74 minutes, 34 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
4. The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes
   1971 • 31 minutes, 50 seconds • 16 mm • Silent

Disc Two:

1. Cat’s Cradle
   1959 • 6 minutes, 16 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
2. Window Water Baby Moving
   1959 • 12 minutes, 11 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
3. Mothlight
   1963 • 3 minutes, 13 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
4. Eye Myth
   1967 • 9 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
5. The Wold-Shadow
   1972 • 2 minutes, 24 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
6. The Garden of Earthly Delights
   1981 • 1 minute, 43 seconds • 35 mm • Silent
7. The Stars Are Beautiful
   1974 • 18 minutes, 27 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
8. Kindering
   1987 • 2 minutes, 51 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
9. I …. Dreaming
   1988 • 6 minutes, 35 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
10. The Dante Quartet
    1987 • 6 minutes, 3 seconds • 35 mm • Silent
11. Night Music
    1986 • 30 seconds • 35 mm • Silent
12. Rage Net
    1988 • 35 seconds • 35 mm • Silent
13. Glaze of Cathexis
    1990 • 2 minutes, 55 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
14. Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
    1990 • 8 minutes, 16 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
15. Untitled (For Marilyn)
    1992 • 10 minutes, 27 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
16. Black Ice
    1994 • 1 minute, 49 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
17. Study in Color and Black and White
    1993 • 1 minute, 35 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
18. Stellar
    1993 • 2 minutes, 19 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
19. Crack Glass Eulogy
    1991 • 6 minutes, 6 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
20. The Dark Tower
    1999 • 2 minutes, 19 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
21. Commingled Containers
    1996 • 2 minutes, 42 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
22. Lovesong
    2001 • 10 minutes, 48 seconds • 16 mm • Silent

Extras:

1. Brakhage on Brakhage, four video encounters with the filmmaker
2. Audio remarks on selected films by Stan Brakhage
3. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film capsules by Brakhage expert Fred Camper

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