Stan Brakhage

Career Overview

Stan Brakhage has 516 screen credits in a career dating back to 1952. Their work spans 14 cinematic universes — most prominently Songs with 28 titles. Signature works include Comingled Containers, For Life, Against the War, Mothlight. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Directing
Gender: male
Known Credits: 516
Birth Date: 1933-01-14 00:00:00
Birth Place: Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Known For

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 14 universes

Songs (28 titles)
Arabic Numeral Series (19 titles)
Persian Series (18 titles)
Lovesong Collection (5 titles)
"..." Reel Collection (5 titles)
Vancouver Island Quartet (4 titles)
Visions in Meditation (4 titles)
Faust Collection (4 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

Jane Wodening (1 collaborations)
Carolee Schneemann (1 collaborations)
James Tenney (1 collaborations)
Kitch (1 collaborations)

Credits

directing (382 credits)
- Persian Series 1-5
  
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  2026
- 20 Little Films
  
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  2012
- By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two
  
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  2010
- By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One
  
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  2003
- Chinese Series
  
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  2003
- Stan's Window & Work in Progress
  
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  2003
- Panels for the Walls of Heaven
  
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  2002
- Resurrectus Est
  
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  2002
- SB
  
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  2002
- Seasons...
  
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  2002
- Ascension
  
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  2002
- Song of the Mushroom
  
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  2002
- Max
  
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  2002
- Persian Series #17
  
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  2001
- Persian Series #13
  
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  2001
- Persian Series #14
  
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  2001
- Persian Series #15
  
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  2001
- Persian Series #18
  
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  2001
- Persian Series #16
  
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  2001
- Micro-Garden
  
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  2001
- Garden Path
  
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  2001
- Lovesong 5 & 6
  
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  2001
- Dark Night of The Soul
  
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  2001
- Lovesong 4
  
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  2001
- Lovesong
  
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  2001
- Lovesong 3
  
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  2001
- Occam's Thread
  
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  2001
- Rounds
  
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  2001
- Very
  
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  2001
- Night Mulch
  
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  2001
- Lovesong 2
  
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  2001
- Jesus Trilogy and Coda
  
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  2000
- Persian Series #11
  
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  2000
- Persian Series #12
  
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  2000
- Persian Series #10
  
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  2000
- The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him
  
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  2000
- Water for Maya
  
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  2000
- Persian Series #7
  
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  2000
- Persian Series #6
  
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  2000
- Persian Series #8
  
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  2000
- Persian Series #9
  
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  2000
- Dance
  
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  2000
- The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels
  
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  1999
- Moilsome Toilsome
  
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  1999
- Persian Series #2
  
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  1999
- Persian Series #3
  
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  1999
- Persian Series #1
  
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  1999
- Persian Series #4
  
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  1999
- Persian Series #5
  
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  1999
- The Earth Song of the Cricket
  
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  1999
- The Dark Tower
  
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  1999
- The Birds Of Paradise
  
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  1999
- Stately Mansions Did Decree
  
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  1999
- Coupling
  
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  1999
- Cloud Chamber
  
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  1999
- Worm and Web Love
  
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  1999
- Cricket Requiem
  
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  1999
- "..." Reel 3
  
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  1998
- "..." Reel 5
  
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  1998
- The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (for Gordon)
  
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  1998
- "..." Reel 4
  
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  1998
- "..." Reel 1
  
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  1998
- "..." Reel 2
  
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  1998
- Self Song & Death Song
  
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  1997
- Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind
  
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  1997
- The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
  
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  1997
- Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis
  
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  1997
- Divertimento
  
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  1997
- Comingled Containers
  
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  1996
- Prelude 9
  
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  1996
- Prelude 11
  
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  1996
- Prelude 7
  
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  1996
- Prelude 12
  
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  1996
- Prelude 8
  
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  1996
- Prelude 13
  
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  1996
- Prelude 10
  
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  1996
- Prelude 14
  
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  1996
- Beautiful Funerals
  
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  1996
- Shockingly Hot
  
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  1996
- Prelude 15
  
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  1996
- Prelude 16
  
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  1996
- Prelude 21
  
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  1996
- Prelude 22
  
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  1996
- Prelude 24
  
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  1996
- Prelude 17
  
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  1996
- Prelude 19
  
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  1996
- Prelude 20
  
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  1996
- Prelude 23
  
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  1996
- Prelude 18
  
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  1996
- Blue Value
  
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  1996
- Sexual Saga
  
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  1996
- The Fur of Home
  
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  1996
- Polite Madness
  
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  1996
- Through Wounded Eyes
  
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  1996
- Concrescence
  
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  1996
- Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse
  
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  1996
- I Take These Truths
  
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  1995
- I...
  
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  1995
- We Hold These
  
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  1995
- The 'b' Series
  
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  1995
- Prelude 3
  
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  1995
- Prelude 4
  
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  1995
- Prelude 1
  
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  1995
- Prelude 2
  
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  1995
- Prelude 5
  
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  1995
- Prelude 6
  
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  1995
- In Consideration of Pompeii
  
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  1995
- The "Lost" Films
  
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  1995
- Spring Cycle
  
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  1995
- Paranoia Corridor
  
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  1995
- Earthen Aerie
  
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  1995
- Black Ice
  
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  1994
- From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis
  
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  1994
- Chartres Series
  
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  1994
- The Mammals of Victoria
  
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  1994
- Elementary Phrases
  
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  1994
- Naughts
  
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  1994
- Cannot Exist
  
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  1994
- Cannot Not Exist
  
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  1994
- Alternating Currents
  
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  1994
- Stellar
  
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  1993
- Study in Color and Black and White
  
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  1993
- Autumnal
  
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  1993
- Three Homerics
  
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  1993
- The Harrowing
  
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  1993
- Tryst Haunt
  
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  1993
- Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
  
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  1993
- Ephemeral Solidity
  
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  1993
- Blossom-Gift/Favor
  
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  1993
- For Marilyn
  
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  1992
- Interpolations 1-5
  
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  1992
- Christ Mass Sex Dance
  
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  1991
- Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse
  
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  1991
- Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
  
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  1991
- Crack Glass Eulogy
  
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  1991
- A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea
  
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  1991
- Passage Through: A Ritual
  
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  1990
- Vision of the Fire Tree
  
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  1990
- Glaze of Cathexis
  
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  1990
- Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
  
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  1990
- Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence
  
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  1990
- City Streaming
  
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  1990
- Babylon Series #2
  
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  1990
- Babylon Series #3
  
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  1990
- The Thatch of Night
  
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  1990
- Babylon Series #1
  
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  1989
- Faust IV
  
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  1989
- Visions in Meditation #1
  
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  1989
- Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde
  
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  1989
- I... Dreaming
  
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  1988
- Faust 3: Candida Albacore
  
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  1988
- Faust's Other: An Idyll
  
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  1988
- Rage Net
  
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  1988
- Marilyn's Window
  
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  1988
- Matins
  
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  1988
- The Dante Quartet
  
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  1987
- Loud Visual Noises
  
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  1987
- Faustfilm: An Opera
  
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  1987
- Kindering
  
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  1987
- The Loom
  
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  1986
- Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander
  
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  1986
- Fireloop
  
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  1986
- Night Music
  
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  1986
- Confession
  
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  1986
- The Aerodyne
  
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  1986
- Jane
  
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  1985
- Tortured Dust Part 4
  
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  1984
- Tortured Dust
  
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  1984
- Tortured Dust Part 3
  
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  1984
- Tortured Dust Part 2
  
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  1984
- Tortured Dust Part 1
  
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  1984
- Egyptian Series
  
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  1984
- Hell Spit Flexion
  
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  1983
- Arabic Numeral Series 15
  
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  1982
- Arabic Numeral Series 19
  
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  1982
- Arabic Numeral Series 16
  
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  1982
- Arabic Numeral Series 18
  
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  1982
- Arabic Numeral Series 14
  
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  1982
- Arabic Numeral Series 17
  
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  1982
- Nodes
  
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  1981
- Unconscious London Strata
  
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  1981
- Made Manifest
  
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  1981
- Aftermath
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 12
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 11
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 0 + 10
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 13
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 9
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 7
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 8
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 3
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 6
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 1
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 2
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 4
  
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  1981
- Arabic Numeral Series 5
  
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  1981
- The Garden of Earthly Delights
  
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  1981
- RR
  
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  1981
- Murder Psalm
  
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  1980
- Duplicity III
  
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  1980
- Roman Numeral: VII
  
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  1980
- Roman Numeral: IV
  
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  1980
- Roman Numeral: VIII
  
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  1980
- Roman Numeral: IX
  
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  1980
- Roman Numeral: VI
  
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  1980
- Roman Numeral: V
  
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  1980
- 4A
  
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  1980
- Sincerity V
  
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  1980
- Other
  
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  1980
- Salome
  
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  1980
- @
  
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  1979
- Roman Numeral: I
  
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  1979
- Roman Numeral: II
  
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  1979
- Sincerity IV
  
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  1979
- Creation
  
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  1979
- Roman Numeral: III
  
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  1979
- Burial Path
  
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  1978
- Thot-Fal'N
  
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  1978
- Bird
  
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  1978
- Centre
  
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  1978
- Nightmare Series
  
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  1978
- Sluice
  
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  1978
- Purity and After
  
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  1978
- Duplicity II
  
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  1978
- Sincerity III
  
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  1978
- Duplicity I
  
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  1978
- The Governor
  
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  1977
- Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects
  
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  1977
- Tragoedia
  
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  1977
- The Domain of the Moment
  
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  1977
- The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower
  
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  1976
- Absence
  
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  1976
- Desert
  
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  1976
- Highs
  
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  1976
- Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane
  
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  1976
- Trio
  
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  1976
- Window
  
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  1976
- Airs
  
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  1976
- Gadflies
  
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  1976
- Sketches
  
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  1976
- Short Films 1976
  
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  1976
- Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975: #5 (Niagara Falls)
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles)
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975
  
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  1975
- Sincerity II
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)
  
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  1975
- Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)
  
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  1975
- The Stars Are Beautiful
  
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  1974
- The Text of Light
  
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  1974
- Hymn to Her
  
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  1974
- Star Garden
  
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  1974
- Skein
  
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  1974
- Aquarien
  
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  1974
- Clancy
  
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  1974
- Flight
  
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  1974
- “He was born, he suffered, he died.”
  
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  1974
- Sol
  
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  1974
- Dominion
  
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  1974
- Gift
  
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  1973
- Sincerity I
  
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  1973
- Sexual Meditation: Open Field
  
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  1973
- The Women
  
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  1973
- The Process
  
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  1972
- The Riddle of Lumen
  
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  1972
- Sexual Meditation: Office Suite
  
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  1972
- Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale
  
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  1972
- The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
  
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  1972
- The Presence
  
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  1972
- Wecht
  
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  1972
- The Wold-Shadow
  
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  1972
- Sexual Meditation: Hotel
  
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  1972
- The Shores of Phos: A Fable
  
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  1972
- Eye Myth Educational
  
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  1972
- Deus Ex
  
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  1971
- The Trip to Door
  
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  1971
- Fox Fire Child Watch
  
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  1971
- Western History
  
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  1971
- Sexual Meditation: Room with View
  
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  1971
- Door
  
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  1971
- The Peaceable Kingdom
  
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  1971
- Angels'
  
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  1971
- Eyes
  
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  1970
- The Machine of Eden
  
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  1970
- The Animals of Eden and After
  
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  1970
- The Weir-Falcon Saga
  
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  1970
- Scenes from Under Childhood
  
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  1970
- Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four
  
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  1970
- Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
  
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  directing
  
  1970
- Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Window Suite of Children's Songs
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- American 30s Song
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Song 28
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Song 29
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Lovemaking
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- My Mountain: Song 27
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Song 26
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Eye Myth
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- Song 24
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- Song 25
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- For Life, Against the War
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- 23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- 23rd Psalm Branch
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- 23rd Psalm Branch: Part I
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- Song 21
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Song 20
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Song 17
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Song 22
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Song 18
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Song 19
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Song 16
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Pasht
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Two: Creeley/McClure
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Fire of Waters
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Song 12
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Song 14
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Song 13
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Song 11
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- 15 Song Traits
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Black Vision
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- The Art of Vision
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Song 10
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Song 9
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Dog Star Man
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Dog Star Man: Part IV
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Dog Star Man: Part III
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Dog Star Man: Part II
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Song 1
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Song 6
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Song 4
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Song 2
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Song 3
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Song 8
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Song 5
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Song 7
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Mothlight
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1963
- Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1963
- Dog Star Man: Part I
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1963
- Blue Moses
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Prelude: Dog Star Man
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1961
- Sartre's Nausea
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1961
- Ballad of the Colorado Ute
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1961
- Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1961
- The Dead
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1960
- Colorado Legend
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1960
- Sirius Remembered
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1959
- Wedlock House: An Intercourse
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1959
- Cat's Cradle
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1959
- Anticipation of the Night
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1958
- Loving
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1957
- Daybreak and Whiteye
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1957
- Flesh of Morning
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1956
- Zone Moment
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1956
- Nightcats
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1956
- The Wonder Ring
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1955
- Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1955
- Reflections on Black
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1955
- Centuries of June
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1955
- In Between
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1955
- The Extraordinary Child
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1954
- The Way to Shadow Garden
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1954
- Desistfilm
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1954
- The Boy and the Sea
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1953
- Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1953
- Interim
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1952
- Songs
  
  director
  
  directing
- Visions in Meditation
  
  director
  
  directing
- Arabic Numeral Series
  
  director
  
  directing
- Persian Series
  
  director
  
  directing
actors (65 credits)
- Brakhage on Brakhage
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Brakhage by Mothlight
  Self (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- For Stan
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- Brakhage Crosses Central Park
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- A Visit to Stan Brakhage
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Notes on Marie Menken
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
  Voice
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- A Visit to Stan Brakhage
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Keeping an Eye on Stan
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Encomium
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- In the Mirror of Maya Deren
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Vakvagany
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Garden Path
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2001
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Looking at Forest of Bliss
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Keepers of the Frame
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1999
- Brakhage
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1998
- I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1998
- Birth of a Nation
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Cannibal! The Musical
  Noon Sr.
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1996
- BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE
  self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1996
- As Is Was
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Jonas in the Desert
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1994
- Abstract Cinema
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- Z (Zee Not Zed)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1991
- Watunna
  Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1989
- I... Dreaming
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- Faust's Other: An Idyll
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1987
- Invocation: Maya Deren
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1985
- Tortured Dust
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1984
- Stan & Jane Brakhage
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1981
- Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
  Himself (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1979
- The Stars Are Beautiful
  Narrator (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1974
- Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1973
- Reality's Invisible
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1972
- Filmmakers
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1969
- Legendary Epics Yarns and Fables Part 2: Stan Brakhage
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1969
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1968
- The Art of Vision
  Man
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1965
- Dog Star Man
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1965
- Dog Star Man: Part IV
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1964
- Dog Star Man: Part III
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1964
- Dog Star Man: Part II
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1964
- Song 1
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1964
- Dog Star Man: Part I
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1963
- Prelude: Dog Star Man
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1962
- Wedlock House: An Intercourse
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1959
- Cat's Cradle
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1959
- Flesh of Morning
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1956
- Trumpit
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1956
- The One Romantic Venture of Edward
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1956
- The Extraordinary Child
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1954
- Songs
  Self (Uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
visual effects (1 credits)
- Derealization
  
  visual effects
  
  visual effects
  
  2025
crew (24 credits)
- Drawings by Billy and His Friends
  
  in memory of
  
  crew
  
  2011
- Sweetgrass
  
  thanks
  
  crew
  
  2009
- The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
  
  thanks
  
  crew
  
  1994
- Thot-Fal'N
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1978
- Trio
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1976
- The Stars Are Beautiful
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1974
- 23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1967
- The Art of Vision
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1965
- Song 1
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1964
- Song 5
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1964
- Blue Moses
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1962
- Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1961
- Ballad of the Colorado Ute
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1961
- Colorado Legend
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1960
- Pittsburgh
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1959
- The Wonder Ring
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1955
- Reflections on Black
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1955
- In Between
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1955
- The Extraordinary Child
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1954
- The Way to Shadow Garden
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1954
- Desistfilm
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1954
- Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1953
- Interim
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1952
- Songs
  
  cinematography
  
  crew
camera (6 credits)
- Jane
  
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1985
- The Text of Light
  
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1974
- The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
  
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1972
- Nuptiae
  
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1969
- Dog Star Man
  
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1965
- Colorado Legend
  
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1960
editing (23 credits)
- Jane
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1985
- Thot-Fal'N
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1978
- The Stars Are Beautiful
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1974
- The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1972
- 23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1967
- The Art of Vision
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1965
- Dog Star Man
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1965
- Song 1
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1964
- Song 5
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1964
- Blue Moses
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1962
- Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1962
- Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1961
- Ballad of the Colorado Ute
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1961
- Colorado Legend
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1960
- The Wonder Ring
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1955
- Reflections on Black
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1955
- In Between
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1955
- The Extraordinary Child
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1954
- The Way to Shadow Garden
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1954
- Desistfilm
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1954
- Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1953
- Interim
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1952
- Songs
  
  editor
  
  editing
writing (13 credits)
- The Stars Are Beautiful
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1974
- Eye Myth Educational
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1972
- Dog Star Man
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1965
- Blue Moses
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1962
- Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1962
- Reflections on Black
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1955
- In Between
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1955
- The Extraordinary Child
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1954
- The Way to Shadow Garden
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1954
- Desistfilm
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1954
- Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1953
- Interim
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1952
- Songs
  
  writer
  
  writing
production (1 credits)
- The Art of Vision
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1965
sound (1 credits)
- The Way to Shadow Garden
  
  sound designer
  
  sound
  
  1954