Cinema of Pre-predication: On Stan Brakhage and the Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Alex Cobb August 2007 Feature Articles “Brakhage gives us phenomenologies on celluloid.” So argues Alex Cobb as he draws out the affinities between the filmmaker and the philosopher.
Across the Universe: Stan Brakhage’s The Dante Quartet Adrian Danks July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Dante Quartet (1987 USA 7 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage One of dozens of hand-painted films that Brakhage completed in the last two decades of his life, The Dante Quartet can be ...
Tracing an Original and the Law of Diminishing Returns: Brakhage Dirk de Bruyn July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Brakhage (1998 USA 75 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Sphinx Productions Prod: Alexa Frances-Shaw Dir, Scr: Jim Shedden Phot: Gerald Packer, Alexa Frances-Shaw Ed: Alexa Frances-Shaw, Isabella Pruska Mus...
Daybreak and Whiteye Martin Rumsby July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Daybreak and Whiteye (1957 USA 8 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage As an amateur enthusiast working out of the Auckland Filmmakers' Cooperative in the early 1980s I stumbled across a pile of Canyon Cinem...
Desistfilm Darragh O’Donoghue July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Desistfilm (1954 USA 7 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage A buzz over the handmade titles disintegrates into a screech of feedback and a piano that sounds like clanking metal. A mandolin player flops on a...
Putting the Garden Into the Machine: On Brakhage’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Karli Lukas July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981 USA 2 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage Interviewed in 1996, Stan Brakhage felt uneasy about becoming a myth in his own lifetime (1). People had come to define him in...
I… Dreaming Malcolm Cook July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film I… Dreaming (1988 USA 7 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage Mus: Joel Haertling, Stephen Foster I… Dreaming occupies an atypical position within the work of Stan Brakhage. Out of nearly 400 films made betw...
Mothlight Darragh O’Donoghue July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Mothlight (1963 USA 3 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage Animation has managed to anthropomorphise a wide variety of creatures, from coyotes to frogs, Tasmanian Devils to woodpeckers. It has managed to ma...
The Wold Shadow Martin Rumsby July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Wold Shadow (1972 USA 3 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage One day, while walking in the woods, Stan Brakhage had a vision of an unaccountable anthropomorphic shadow amongst the trees. Returning to th...
Stan Brakhage: A Short Introduction Fred Camper May 2003 Remembering Stan Brakhage Camper explores the visionary, innovative and beautiful nature of Brakhage's film work, and the man's generous spirit.
A Remembrance for Stan Brakhage Phil Solomon May 2003 Remembering Stan Brakhage A celebration of Brakhage's inspiring life and work, by a friend and collaborator.