Stan Brakhage
Directing
67
Acting Credits
379
Directed
Biography
Stan Brakhage is one of the most influential filmmakers in American avant-garde cinema, noted for his unflinching social commentaries and technical innovations. Over his nearly 40-year career, he has made over 200 films of varying length. He made his first film, Interim (1952) at age 18 after dropping out of college. Brakhage films seek to change the way we see. They encourage viewers to eschew traditional narrative structure in favor of pure visual perception that is not reliant on naming what ...
Known For
Filmography
Brakhage on Brakhage
2025
as Self
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
Brakhage by Mothlight
2016
as Self (voice)
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two
2010
For Stan
2009
as Himself
Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow
2008
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
2006
as Self
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2006
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
2004
as Voice
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2003
as Himself
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Encomium
2003
as Self
Keeping an Eye on Stan
2003
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
as Himself
Vakvagany
2002
as Himself
Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
2002
as Himself
Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting
2002
Garden Path
2001
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
as Self
Looking at Forest of Bliss
2000
as Himself
Keepers of the Frame
1999
as Himself
Brakhage
1998
as Self
I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)
1998
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis
1997
Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos
1997
Cannibal! The Musical
1996
as Noon Sr.
BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE
1996
as self
As Is Was
1995
Jonas in the Desert
1994
as Self
Z (Zee Not Zed)
1993
Abstract Cinema
1993
as Himself
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991
as Self
Watunna
1989
as Narrator
I... Dreaming
1988
Faust's Other: An Idyll
1988
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
1987
as Self
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
as Himself
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1985
as Self
Tortured Dust
1984
Stan & Jane Brakhage
1981
as Self
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
1979
as Himself (voice)
The Stars Are Beautiful
1974
as Narrator (voice)
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Reality's Invisible
1972
as Self
Screening Room
1972
as Himself
Filmmakers
1969
as Himself
Legendary Epics Yarns and Fables Part 2: Stan Brakhage
1969
as Himself
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
The Art of Vision
1965
as Man
Dog Star Man
1965
Dog Star Man: Part IV
1964
Song 1
1964
Dog Star Man: Part II
1964
Dog Star Man: Part III
1964
Dog Star Man: Part I
1963
Prelude: Dog Star Man
1962
Cat's Cradle
1959
as Self
Window Water Baby Moving
1959
as Self (uncredited)
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959
Flesh of Morning
1956
Trumpit
1956
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
1956
The Extraordinary Child
1954