Actor
Stan Brakhage
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
Acting
2022 -- Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages |
2013 -- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self
2011 -- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film | Himself
2009 -- For Stan | Himself
2008 -- Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow |
2006 -- A Visit to Stan Brakhage |
2006 -- Brakhage Crosses Central Park | Self
2006 -- Notes on Marie Menken | Self (archive footage)
2004 -- Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability | Voice
2003 -- A Visit to Stan Brakhage | Himself
2003 -- Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003) | Self (archive footage)
2003 -- Keeping an Eye on Stan |
2003 -- Encomium | Self
2002 -- Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting |
2002 -- Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day | Himself
2002 -- In the Mirror of Maya Deren | Himself
2002 -- Vakvagany | Himself
2001 -- Garden Path |
2000 -- As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty | Self
2000 -- Looking at Forest of Bliss | Himself
1999 -- Keepers of the Frame | Himself
1998 -- Brakhage | Self
1998 -- I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C) |
1997 -- Birth of a Nation | Self
1997 -- Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos |
1997 -- Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis |
1996 -- Cannibal! The Musical | Noon Sr.
1996 -- BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE | self
1995 -- As Is Was |
1994 -- Jonas in the Desert | Self
1993 -- Abstract Cinema | Himself
1993 -- Z (Zee Not Zed) |
1991 -- Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box | Self
1989 -- Watunna | Narrator
1988 -- I... Dreaming |
1988 -- Faust's Other: An Idyll |
1987 -- Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye | Self
1986 -- Invocation: Maya Deren | Himself
1985 -- Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage | Self
1984 -- Tortured Dust |
1981 -- Stan & Jane Brakhage | Self
1979 -- Grand Opera: An Historical Romance | Himself (voice)
1974 -- The Stars Are Beautiful | Narrator (voice)
1972 -- Reality's Invisible | Himself
1969 -- Filmmakers | Himself
1965 -- The Art of Vision | Man
1965 -- Dog Star Man |
1964 -- Dog Star Man: Part III |
1964 -- Dog Star Man: Part IV |
1964 -- Song 1 |
1963 -- Dog Star Man: Part I |
1963 -- Dog Star Man: Part II |
1962 -- Prelude: Dog Star Man |
1959 -- Window Water Baby Moving | Self (uncredited)
1959 -- Wedlock House: An Intercourse |
1959 -- Cat's Cradle | Self
1956 -- Flesh of Morning |
1956 -- The One Romantic Venture of Edward |
1956 -- Trumpit |
1954 -- The Extraordinary Child |
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