Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde

No information available regarding the film's director. Just under 10 minutes of over an hour's footage survive.

Flares of color break into streams of light, leaves, wood grain and prism-etched vegetation. A moon lifts out of this dark weave to be replaced by autumn leaves against a grainy sky, a fiery sky. A gr...

A short film by Stan Brakhage

In this haunting but lyrical meditation on war, Brakhage intercuts 8-mm footage of Colorado with imagery from WWII newsreels. He responds to the violence and nightmare of war by painting directly on t...

Avant garde exploration of the marriage broker joke and other things.

The "star", as it is singular, is the sun; and it is metaphored, at the beginning of this film, by the projector anyone uses to show forth. Then the imaginary sun begins its course throughout whatever...

The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in Colorado. He sets up a comparison between “Kubelka’s Vienna...

This is a film inspired by Gertrude Stein's "Stanzas In Meditation", in which the filmmaker has edited a meditative series of images of landscapes and human symbolism "indicative of that field-of-cons...

This film by Stan Brakhage investigates the process of memory and thought by melting a series of images and a field of color. The positive-negative flickering graphs a sort of shutter-window all over...

A short film by Stan Brakhage featuring music by Rick Corrigan.

A short film by Stan Brakhage.

Two portraits in relation to each other, the first of Robert Creeley, the second of Michael McClure.

Imaginação periférica da vida diária como a mente a tem - ou seja, um êxtase aterrorizante de (pintado à mão) nervos sinapting termina retro-despertando a partir da aderência do pensamento da vida.

This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should constitute a purely visual "self-evident" (as prompted...

A combination of hand-painting and photography.

A short film by Stan Brakhage

The final Duplicity in this series does seem a resolve with the term. All previous visual manifestations have been extended (thru four-roll superimpositions) to their limit. Obvious costumes and masks...