Biography: Stan Brakhage |

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... more
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Cast: Kenneth Anger Mary Woronov Joseph J. Menkevich Alfred Leslie Marie Menken Martina Kudlacek   
Tags: Biography Visual Arts Film & Television History 
Length: 102min
Marie Menken was an artist and experimental filmmaker who was a contemporary and confidante to many noted auteurs of the '60s, including Kenneth Anger (he helped her shoot her film Arabesque for Kenneth Anger, while she appeared in Scorpio Rising),...

In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002)
Cast: Jonas Mekas Katherine Dunham Chao-Li Chi George Ferguson   
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Biography 
Length: 103min
Maya Deren was one of the pioneering figures of avant-garde cinema in America and also a noted author, poet, anthropologist, and alternative cultural figure of the 1940s and 1950s. Born Eleanora Derenkovsky in 1917, her family fled Kiev in 1922 to...

Cast: Stan Brakhage Alan Alda Debbie Reynolds Roddy McDowall Leonard Maltin   
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 
Length: 70min
It is estimated that 80 of all films released during the silent era have been lost forever, with no prints in existence today (a larger percentage of paintings from the Renaissance have survived), while some films from as little as 15 to 20 years ago...

The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (1971)
Tags: Art Film Surrealist Film 
Length: 32min
The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes is an experimental short film directed by Stan Brakhage in 1971. It consists entirely of graphic footage from actual autopsies. The camera captures, close-up, the corpses of a man and woman in a Pittsburgh morgue....

Tags: Abstract Film Art Film 
Length: 78min
Avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage has labelled his 1963 film Dog Star Man his "cosmological epic." This virtually indescribable film was released in a prelude and four parts. These were not titled but dated instead: Prelude, 1962; Part One, 1963;...

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