10.0
10.0
Keepers of the Frame
1999
as Himself
Stan Brakhage
Directing
Born:January 14, 1933
Died:March 9, 2003(aged 70)
Birthplace:Kansas City, Missouri, USA
N/A
CommunityBiography
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 is seen; rather his goal is to create a more visceral visual experience, for he believes that a "stream-of visual-consciousness could be nothing less than the pathway of the soul." To this end, his films are shot in highly sensual colors and utilize minimal soundtracks. His work can be divided into distinct periods. His first short films explored the properties and possibilities of light. In many of his experimental ventures, Brakhage has forgone traditional cinematography in favor of working directly with the film stock itself. He has occasionally painted, inked, scratched and dyed images onto it; he has also tried pasting organic objects on the film. His most famous example is the 1963 short Mothlight in which he glued moth wings onto the stock. Some of his early films were based on his most intimate experiences that included making love to his new bride--depicted on negative film--in Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959), and an attempt to bring his dead dog back to life with a camera in Sirius Remembered (1959). During the 1960s, Brakhage's iconoclastic views were celebrated for their poetry, but during the '70s, his focus changed to social issues and he alienated many supporters with such disturbing film series as the "Pittsburgh documents" in which he presented many gruesome views of inner city life with films such as Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971) which was shot in a morgue. He also continued with autobiographical material with the "Sincerity/Duplicity series. During the 1980s, Brakhage's focus again changed--this time he became intrigued with creating truly "abstract" films such as Arabics (1982) which consists of brilliant bursts of colored light which he claims, represent "envisioned music." In addition to filmmaking, Brakhage also wrote books about films and filmmaking and also served as a teacher.
Filmography (423 movies)
10.0
10.0
Vakvagany
2002
as Himself
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 13
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 15
1982
Director
10.0
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Arabic Numeral Series 16
1982
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 17
1982
Director
10.0
10.0
Skein
1974
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 14
1982
Director
10.0
10.0
“He was born, he suffered, he died.”
1974
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 2
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 1
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Panels for the Walls of Heaven
2002
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 19
1982
Director
10.0
10.0
The Animals of Eden and After
1970
Director
10.0
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Arabic Numeral Series 3
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 4
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 5
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 6
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 18
1982
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 8
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 9
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 0 + 10
1981
Director
10.0
10.0
Arabic Numeral Series 11
1981
Director
8.2
8.2
23rd Psalm Branch
1967
Director
8.0
8.0
Abstract Cinema
1993
as Himself
8.0
8.0
Song 25
1967
Director
8.0
8.0
Song 16
1966
Director
8.0
8.0
Roman Numeral: II
1979
Director
8.0
8.0
Song 17
1966
Director
8.0
8.0
Passage Through: A Ritual
1990
Director
8.0
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Song 18
1966
Director
8.0
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Song 19
1966
Director
8.0
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Song 20
1966
Director
8.0
8.0
Song 21
1966
Director
8.0
8.0
Song 24
1967
Director
8.0
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Song 26
1968
Director
8.0
8.0
Song 28
1969
Director
8.0
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Song 29
1969
Director
8.0
8.0
15 Song Traits
1965
Director
8.0
8.0
My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers
1969
Director
8.0
8.0
Egyptian Series
1984
Director
7.7
7.7
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
as Self
7.6
7.6
Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
2002
as Himself
7.4
7.4
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
7.4
7.4
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
as Himself
7.2
7.2
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
1979
as Himself (voice)
7.2
7.2
RR
1981
Director
7.0
7.0
For Stan
2009
as Himself
7.0
7.0
Tortured Dust
1984
Director
7.0
7.0
The Art of Vision
1965
Director
7.0
7.0
Brakhage
1998
as Self
7.0
7.0
Coupling
1999
Director
7.0
7.0
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One
2003
Director
7.0
7.0
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two
2010
Director
7.0
7.0
The "Lost" Films
1995
Director
7.0
7.0
Max
2002
Director
6.8
6.8
Window Water Baby Moving
1959
Director
6.8
6.8
Concrescence
1996
Director
6.7
6.7
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself
6.7
6.7
My Mountain: Song 27
1968
Director
6.6
6.6
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him
2000
Director
6.5
6.5
Dog Star Man
1965
Director
6.5
6.5
Dog Star Man: Part II
1963
Director
6.5
6.5
Seasons...
2002
Director
6.5
6.5
Arabic Numeral Series 7
1981
Director
6.5
6.5
Song 22
1966
Director
6.5
6.5
Faustfilm: An Opera
1987
Director
6.5
6.5
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
1953
Director
6.5
6.5
Duplicity I
1978
Director
6.5
6.5
Roman Numeral: I
1979
Director
6.5
6.5
Persian Series #8
2000
Director
6.4
6.4
Cannibal! The Musical
1996
as Noon Sr.
6.4
6.4
Stellar
1993
Director
6.4
6.4
Anticipation of the Night
1958
Director
6.3
6.3
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
6.3
6.3
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1972
Director
6.3
6.3
The Dante Quartet
1987
Director
6.3
6.3
Comingled Containers
1996
Director
6.3
6.3
A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea
1991
Director
6.2
6.2
Dog Star Man: Part I
1963
Director
6.2
6.2
23rd Psalm Branch: Part I
1967
Director
6.2
6.2
Ephemeral Solidity
1993
Director
6.2
6.2
Autumnal
1993
Director
6.1
6.1
Dog Star Man: Part III
1964
Director
6.1
6.1
Prelude: Dog Star Man
1962
Director
6.1
6.1
Dog Star Man: Part IV
1964
Director
6.1
6.1
Murder Psalm
1980
Director
6.0
6.0
Stan & Jane Brakhage
1981
as Self
6.0
6.0
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
1956
6.0
6.0
The Wonder Ring
1955
Director
6.0
6.0
For Life, Against the War
1967
Director
6.0
6.0
Black Ice
1994
Director
6.0
6.0
Interim
1952
Director
6.0
6.0
The Garden of Earthly Delights
1981
Director
6.0
6.0
Alternating Currents
1994
Director
6.0
6.0
Faust 3: Candida Albacore
1988
Director
6.0
6.0
Persian Series #18
2001
Director
6.0
6.0
Persian Series #17
2001
Director
6.0
6.0
Prelude 7
1996
Director
6.0
6.0
The Governor
1977
Director
6.0
6.0
Micro Garden
2001
Director
6.0
6.0
Prelude 9
1996
Director
6.0
6.0
Prelude 10
1996
Director
6.0
6.0
Prelude 12
1996
Director
5.9
5.9
Reality's Invisible
1972
as Himself
5.9
5.9
The Text of Light
1974
Director
5.9
5.9
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind
1997
Director
5.8
5.8
Cat's Cradle
1959
Director
5.8
5.8
Persian Series #16
2001
Director
5.8
5.8
Persian Series #9
2000
Director
5.8
5.8
Persian Series #14
2001
Director
5.8
5.8
Persian Series #6
2000
Director
5.8
5.8
Persian Series #5
1999
Director
5.8
5.8
Persian Series #15
2001
Director
5.8
5.8
Prelude 6
1995
Director
5.8
5.8
Persian Series #7
2000
Director
5.8
5.8
Prelude 14
1996
Director
5.8
5.8
Prelude 11
1996
Director
5.8
5.8
Untitled (For Marilyn)
1992
Director
5.8
5.8
Persian Series #10
2000
Director
5.7
5.7
Faust's Other: An Idyll
1988
Director
5.7
5.7
Persian Series #2
1999
Director
5.7
5.7
Prelude 13
1996
Director
5.7
5.7
Mothlight
1963
Director
5.7
5.7
Prelude 8
1996
Director
5.7
5.7
The Dark Tower
1999
Director
5.7
5.7
Star Garden
1974
Director
5.7
5.7
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
1990
Director
5.7
5.7
Elementary Phrases
1994
Director
5.6
5.6
I... Dreaming
1988
Director
5.6
5.6
Persian Series #13
2001
Director
5.6
5.6
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
1967
Director
5.6
5.6
The Domain of the Moment
1977
Director
5.6
5.6
Persian Series #4
1999
Director
5.6
5.6
Persian Series #11
2000
Director
5.5
5.5
Jonas in the Desert
1994
as Self
5.5
5.5
The Riddle of Lumen
1972
Director
5.5
5.5
Crack Glass Eulogy
1991
Director
5.5
5.5
Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
1993
Director
5.5
5.5
Eye Myth Educational
1972
Director
5.5
5.5
"..." Reel 5
1998
Director
5.5
5.5
Desistfilm
1954
Writer
5.5
5.5
Persian Series #3
1999
Director
5.5
5.5
Eyes
1970
Director
5.4
5.4
Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959
Director
5.4
5.4
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
as Self (archive footage)
5.4
5.4
The Extraordinary Child
1954
Writer
5.4
5.4
The Machine of Eden
1970
Director
5.4
5.4
Thot-Fal'N
1978
Director
5.4
5.4
Night Music
1986
Director
5.4
5.4
Eye Myth
1967
Director
5.3
5.3
Garden Path
2001
Director
5.3
5.3
Prelude 2
1995
Director
5.3
5.3
The Way to Shadow Garden
1954
Director
5.3
5.3
The Wold-Shadow
1972
Director
5.3
5.3
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde
1989
Director
5.3
5.3
Prelude 1
1995
Director
5.3
5.3
Glaze of Cathexis
1990
Director
5.2
5.2
Lovesong
2001
Director
5.2
5.2
Rage Net
1988
Director
5.2
5.2
Duplicity III
1980
Director
5.2
5.2
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
1961
Director
5.2
5.2
Persian Series #1
1999
Director
5.2
5.2
I Take These Truths
1995
Director
5.2
5.2
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
1991
Director
5.2
5.2
The Harrowing
1993
Director
5.2
5.2
Persian Series #12
2000
Director
5.2
5.2
Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)
1975
Director
5.1
5.1
Prelude 4
1995
Director
5.1
5.1
Kindering
1987
Director
5.1
5.1
Unconscious London Strata
1981
Director
5.1
5.1
Deus Ex
1971
Director
5.1
5.1
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence
1990
Director
5.1
5.1
Desert
1976
Director
5.1
5.1
Chinese Series
2003
Director
5.0
5.0
The Stars Are Beautiful
1974
Director
5.0
5.0
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
as Self (archive footage)
5.0
5.0
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
as Himself
5.0
5.0
The Loom
1986
Director
5.0
5.0
Burial Path
1978
Director
5.0
5.0
From: First Hymn to the Night – Novalis
1994
Director
5.0
5.0
Reflections on Black
1955
Writer
5.0
5.0
The Mammals of Victoria
1994
Director
5.0
5.0
Beautiful Funerals
1996
Director
5.0
5.0
Three Homerics
1993
Director
5.0
5.0
The Weir-Falcon Saga
1970
Director
5.0
5.0
Western History
1971
Director
5.0
5.0
Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein
1965
Director
5.0
5.0
Creation
1979
Director
5.0
5.0
Prelude 3
1995
Director
5.0
5.0
Prelude 5
1995
Director
4.9
4.9
Blue Moses
1962
Writer
4.9
4.9
Two: Creeley/McClure
1965
Director
4.8
4.8
Arabic Numeral Series 12
1981
Director
4.8
4.8
Study in Color and Black and White
1993
Director
4.8
4.8
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three
1969
Director
4.7
4.7
Visions in Meditation #1
1989
Director
4.7
4.7
Chartres Series
1994
Director
4.7
4.7
The Dead
1960
Director
4.7
4.7
Sexual Meditation: Hotel
1972
Director
4.7
4.7
Sincerity V
1980
Director
4.7
4.7
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite
1972
Director
4.7
4.7
Tryst Haunt
1993
Director
4.6
4.6
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
1997
Director
4.6
4.6
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One
1968
Director
4.6
4.6
Water for Maya
2000
Director
4.6
4.6
The Process
1972
Director
4.5
4.5
Fire of Waters
1965
Director
4.5
4.5
American 30s Song
1969
Director
4.5
4.5
Naughts
1994
Director
4.5
4.5
Earthen Aerie
1995
Director
4.5
4.5
I...
1995
Director
4.5
4.5
Song 4
1964
Director
4.4
4.4
Song 1
1964
Director
4.4
4.4
Song 8
1964
Director
4.3
4.3
Sincerity II
1975
Director
4.3
4.3
Song 7
1964
Director
4.2
4.2
Flesh of Morning
1956
Director
4.2
4.2
Song 2
1964
Director
4.2
4.2
Song 13
1965
Director
4.2
4.2
Song 12
1965
Director
4.2
4.2
Song 3
1964
Director
4.2
4.2
Song 5
1964
Director
4.2
4.2
Song 6
1964
Director
4.2
4.2
Song 14
1965
Director
4.2
4.2
Song 9
1965
Director
4.0
4.0
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
2006
as Self
4.0
4.0
Trumpit
1956
4.0
4.0
Loud Visual Noises
1987
Director
4.0
4.0
Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale
1972
Director
4.0
4.0
"..." Reel 3
1998
Director
4.0
4.0
Fireloop
1986
Director
4.0
4.0
Ballad of the Colorado Ute
1961
Director
4.0
4.0
Airs
1976
Director
4.0
4.0
"..." Reel 4
1998
Director
4.0
4.0
Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
1962
Writer
3.9
3.9
Song 11
1965
Director
3.9
3.9
Song 10
1965
Director
3.9
3.9
Sexual Meditation: Room with View
1971
Director
3.9
3.9
Sirius Remembered
1959
Director
3.9
3.9
Centuries of June
1955
Director
3.8
3.8
Lovemaking
1968
Director
3.8
3.8
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two
1969
Director
3.8
3.8
Sexual Meditation: Open Field
1973
Director
3.8
3.8
Lovesong 2
2001
Director
3.5
3.5
Pasht
1966
Director
3.5
3.5
Sincerity I
1973
Director
3.5
3.5
Centre
1978
Director
3.5
3.5
Sincerity III
1978
Director
3.3
3.3
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four
1970
Director
3.3
3.3
Short Films 1975: #9 (Forest Love Scene)
1975
Director
3.0
3.0
"..." Reel 1
1998
Director
3.0
3.0
"..." Reel 2
1998
Director
3.0
3.0
Window
1976
Director
3.0
3.0
Jane
1985
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 21
1996
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 23
1996
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 18
1996
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 17
1996
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 15
1996
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 16
1996
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 20
1996
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 24
1996
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 22
1996
Director
2.0
2.0
Prelude 19
1996
Director
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991
as Self
As Is Was
1995
Filmmakers
1969
as Himself
Z (Zee Not Zed)
1993
Watunna
1989
as Narrator
Looking at Forest of Bliss
2000
as Himself
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2003
as Himself
Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopoulos
1997
Stan Brakhage on Jim Davis
1997
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2006
Keeping an Eye on Stan
2003
Encomium
2003
as Self
Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
2004
as Voice
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
1987
as Self
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1985
as Self
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
I Met Stan Brakhage (At Moma, N.Y.C)
1998
Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow
2008
Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting
2002
BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE
1996
as self
Songs
1969
Writer
Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse
1991
Director
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels
1999
Director
Jesus Trilogy and Coda
2000
Director
Self Song & Death Song
1997
Director
Ascension
2002
Director
Dark Night of The Soul
2001
Director
Hell Spit Flexion
1983
Director
20 Little Films
2012
Director
Blue Value
1996
Director
Short Films 1975
1975
Director
Blossom-Gift/Favor
1993
Director
We Hold These
1995
Director
The Women
1973
Director
Highs
1976
Director
Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane
1976
Director
Other
1980
Director
Tortured Dust Part 1
1984
Director
Tortured Dust Part 2
1984
Director
Tortured Dust Part 3
1984
Director
Tortured Dust Part 4
1984
Director
Cloud Chamber
1999
Director
Bird
1978
Director
Worm and Web Love
1999
Director
City Streaming
1990
Director
Marilyn's Window
1988
Director
Confession
1986
Director
Flight
1974
Director
Babylon Series #1
1989
Director
Babylon Series #2
1990
Director
Babylon Series #3
1990
Director
Rounds
2001
Director
Loving
1957
Director
The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth
1968
Director
Nightcats
1956
Director
Zone Moment
1956
Director
Daybreak and Whiteye
1957
Director
Door
1971
Director
The Shores of Phos: A Fable
1972
Director
The Peaceable Kingdom
1971
Director
Angels'
1971
Director
Aquarien
1974
Director
Window Suite of Children's Songs
1969
Director
In Between
1955
Writer
Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie
1961
Director
Oh Life - a Woe Story - the A Test News
1963
Director
Sartre's Nausea
1961
Director
Fox Fire Child Watch
1971
Director
The Trip to Door
1971
Director
Stately Mansions Did Decree
1999
Director
The 'b' Series
1995
Director
The Birds Of Paradise
1999
Director
Shockingly Hot
1996
Director
Cannot Exist
1994
Director
Occam's Thread
2001
Director
Cannot Not Exist
1994
Director
Made Manifest
1981
Director
Gift
1973
Director
Roman Numeral: III
1979
Director
Roman Numeral: IV
1980
Director
Roman Numeral: V
1980
Director
Roman Numeral: VI
1980
Director
Roman Numeral: VII
1980
Director
Roman Numeral: VIII
1980
Director
Roman Numeral: IX
1980
Director
Clancy
1974
Director
In Consideration of Pompeii
1995
Director
Vision of the Fire Tree
1990
Director
Nightmare Series
1978
Director
Faust IV
1989
Director
Moilsome Toilsome
1999
Director
Sexual Saga
1996
Director
Hymn to Her
1974
Director
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis
1997
Director
Night Mulch
2001
Director
Very
2001
Director
The Presence
1972
Director
Sol
1974
Director
Dominion
1974
Director
Short Films 1976
1976
Director
Trio
1976
Director
Tragoedia
1977
Director
The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower
1976
Director
Absence
1976
Director
Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects
1977
Director
Sluice
1978
Director
Purity and After
1978
Director
Duplicity II
1978
Director
@
1979
Director
Sincerity IV
1979
Director
Sexual Meditation #1: Motel
1970
Director
Salome
1980
Director
Nodes
1981
Director
Aftermath
1981
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The Aerodyne
1986
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Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander
1986
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Matins
1988
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The Thatch of Night
1990
Director
Christ Mass Sex Dance
1991
Director
Interpolations 1-5
1992
Director
Spring Cycle
1995
Director
Paranoia Corridor
1995
Director
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse
1996
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Through Wounded Eyes
1996
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Polite Madness
1996
Director
The Fur of Home
1996
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Divertimento
1997
Director
The Female Mystique and Spare Leaves (for Gordon)
1998
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The Earthsong of the Cricket
1999
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Cricket Requiem
1999
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Dance
2000
Director
Scenes from Under Childhood
1970
Director
Stan's Window & Work in Progress
2003
Director
The Boy and the Sea
1953
Director
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
1955
Director
Persian Series 1-5
TBA
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Song of the Mushroom
2002
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Lovesong 3
2001
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Lovesong 4
2001
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Lovesong 5 & 6
2001
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Sketches
1976
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Colorado Legend
1960
Director
Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)
1975
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Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)
1975
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Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
1975
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Short Films 1975: #4 (Lady in Glass)
1975
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Short Films 1975: #5 (Niagara Falls)
1975
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Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles)
1975
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Short Films 1975: #7 (Turning the Raccoon Loose)
1975
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Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)
1975
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Gadflies
1976
Director
Silent Sound Sense Stars Subotnick and Sender
1962
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4A
1980
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Cornell's Portrait of June
TBA
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Black Vision
1965
Director
Blood's Tone
1965
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Resurrectus Est
2002
Director
Wecht
1972
Director
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