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Stan Brakhage

Highest Rated: 100% Dog Star Man (1964)

Lowest Rated: 100% Dog Star Man (1964)

Birthday: Jan 14, 1933

Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Since 1952, and his first film, "Interim," through such landmark efforts as "Anticipation of the Night" (1958), Brakhage has been engaged in an effort to reshape our habits of seeing. In his book, "Metaphors on Vision," he wrote, "Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not repond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception..." Brakhage has made over 200 films, ranging in length from less than a minute to more than four hours. Though the style of his filmmaking has been consistent over four decades--shallow focus, a rich and sensual use of color, rhythmic cutting, little or no soundtrack--Brakhage has dealt with a variety of themes. In "Scenes From Under Childhood" (1967-70) he sought to reconstruct the primal adventure of perception; in "Dog Star Man" (1959-64) he created a visual symphony that compares the ascent of a mountain to our passage into life; in "Window Water Baby Moving" (1959) he produced a unique film on the birth of a child; and in "Mothlight" (1963) and a dozen other films made over the next 20-odd years, he pasted organic materials or painted, inked, or dyed images directly onto film stock, making streams of images without the use of a camera.

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Highest rated movies

100% 78% Dog Star Man
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100% 79% By Brakhage: An Anthology
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The Governor
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Anticipation of the Night
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A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea
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82% Eye Myth
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83% Eyes
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95% The Dante Quartet
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Paranoia Corridor
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Tortured Dust
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Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dinner With Brakhage and Gamow Unknown (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Keepers of the Frame Self - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brakhage Unknown (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Comingled Containers Director,
Cinematographer
- 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paranoia Corridor Director - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jonas in the Desert Unknown (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea Director - 1991
No Score Yet 95% The Dante Quartet Director - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tortured Dust Director,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Garden of Earthly Delights Director,
Cinematographer,
Producer
- 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Governor Director,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 1977
No Score Yet 62% The Text of Light Director - 1974
No Score Yet 82% Eye Myth Director - 1972
No Score Yet 83% Eyes Director - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deus Ex Director - 1971
No Score Yet 83% The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes Director,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Art of Vision Director - 1965
100% 78% Dog Star Man Unknown (Character),
Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 1964
No Score Yet 81% Window Water Baby Moving Director - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wonder Ring Director,
Cinematographer
- 1955
100% 79% By Brakhage: An Anthology Unknown (Character),
Director
- 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Anticipation of the Night Director -