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1. Cannibal! The Musical (1993)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
The sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition tells how his taste for gold was replaced by that of human flesh.
Director: Trey Parker | Stars: Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Stephen Blackpool, Stan Brakhage
Votes: 13,091
2. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,175
3. Dog Star Man (1964)
78 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
An experimental film from Stan Brakhage in which a man and his dog ascend a wooded mountain.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,235
4. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)
Not Rated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,668
5. ...Reel Five (1999)
12 min | Short
An experimental film by Stan Brakhage combining flashing lights and colors which are especially dark in the beginning and bright at the end.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 233
6. Diaries Notes and Sketches (1968)
Not Rated | 177 min | Documentary
A chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Timothy Leary, Ed Emshwiller, Franz Fuenstler, Jack Smith
Votes: 790
7. The Fifties (1997– )
Documentary, History
An in depth documentary of all aspects of life in the 1950s.
Stars: Edward Herrmann, David Halberstam, B.B. King, John Chancellor
Votes: 187
8. Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Stan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Schwegmann, Jane Wodening
Votes: 2,464
9. The Dark Tower (1999)
3 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which displays various lights and colors.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 716
10. Mothlight (1963)
4 min | Short
A "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 2,861
11. The Late Show (1988–1995)
Documentary
Television programme on arts, the media and culture.
Stars: Sarah Dunant, Tracey MacLeod, Clive James, Waldemar Januszczak
Votes: 31
12. Dog Star Man: Part I (1962)
30 min | Short
The first part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,568
13. The Dante Quartet (1987)
6 min | Animation, Short
Dante's Divine Comedy depicted as thousands of abstract paintings by Stan Brakhage himself.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,204
14. Desistfilm (1954)
7 min | Short, Romance
Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door opens and in comes a young man, cigarette ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: A. Austin, Robert Benson, Yvonne Fair, Larry Jordan
Votes: 995
15. The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000)
50 min
A collage of fire and water inferences on single-strand photography.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 34
16. Ballad of the Colorado Ute (1961)
17 min | Short, Drama
Director: Stan Brakhage | Star: Fred Arthur
17. Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2001)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
Director: Martina Kudlácek | Stars: Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi, Rita Christiani
Votes: 440 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Court-circuit (2001– )
90 min
Stars: Christine Diensberg, Sophie Tavert, Sonja Szylowicki, Aurel Bantzer
Votes: 24
19. The Way to Shadow Garden (2020)
10 min | Short
This way madness - or experimental filmmaking - lies. A solitary man in coat and tie enters an apartment that may be a converted garage. It's midnight. He appears agitated and distraught. ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage | Star: Walter Newcomb
Votes: 231
21. Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
25 min | Short
The prelude to Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,483
22. Cat's Cradle (1959)
6 min | Short
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 987
23. By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One (2003 Video)
243 min
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 29
24. Birth of a Nation (1997)
85 min | Documentary
Mekas leads an archival avant-garde, a fast-paced parade of 160 underground film people he captured on film over four decades, described as, "160 portraits or rather appearances, sketches ... See full summary »
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Kenneth Anger, Michel Auder, Bruce Baillie
Votes: 105
25. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Biography
What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid since before WWI have always found themselves in a no man's land. Excluded both from the art ... See full summary »
Director: Pip Chodorov | Stars: Pip Chodorov, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Stan Brakhage
Votes: 317
26. Crack Glass Eulogy (1992)
6 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which captures various flashing lights, colors, and images.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 569
27. Stellar (1993)
G | 3 min | Short
Stan Brakhage's artistic view of the cosmos.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 944
28. The Loom (1986)
50 min
"The Loom" is a film containing almost-always four images superimposed on one another, based on animal life on earth.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 24
29. The Extraordinary Child (1954)
12 min | Comedy, Short
Nine months after a couple marries, a doctor comes to their flat; on the front door is an ornate poster saying, "Blessed Event." In the flat, the baby's father and a male friend play poker.... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Walter Newcomb, Larry Jordan, Yvonne Fair, Robert Benson
Votes: 110
30. For Life, Against the War (1967)
150 min | Documentary, History, War
A political activism compilation film made by splicing together a series of clips centered around the Vietnam War by a number of different filmmakers.
Directors: Maurice Amor, Karl Bissenger, Tom Bissenger, Abbe Borov, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, George Breidenbach, Rudy Burckhardt, Shirley Clarke, Storm De Hirsch, Don Duga, Peter Elison, Nina Feinburg, Betty Ferguson, Ron Finne, Robert Fiore, Barbara Fultz, Peter Gessner, Victor Grauer, Hilary Harris, John H. Hawkins, Nat Hoffman, Leo Hurwitz, Tom Hurwitz, Ken Jacobs, Lewis Jacobs, A.M. Jimmenez, Larry Jordan, Bob Kinney, Manfred Kirchheimer, Henry J. Korn, Dave Lambet, Peggy Lawson, Charles Levine, Lionel Martinez, Abbott Meader, Jonas Mekas, Max Phillips, Preston, Mark Sadan, Lee Savage, Allen Schaff, Stephen Sellinger, Allen Siegal, Michael Snow, Ben Van Meter, Stan Vanderbeek, Jerry Wakefield, John Wallenmeyer, Norman Weissburg, Fred Wellington, Joyce Wieland, Lloyd Michael Williams
31. Black Ice (1994)
3 min | Short
A lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,091
32. Scenes from Under Childhood Section #4 (1970)
45 min
An experimental film by Stan Brakhage which combines color, lights, and blurred images of children. This is part of the Scenes from Under Childhood Series.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 49
33. Anticipation of the Night (1958)
42 min | Short
Notes of journey life of Stan Brakhage like a befits of a diary book in a very strong sense of experimentation, romantic, modernist and abstract.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 452
34. Visions in Meditation (1990)
72 min | Documentary
Four meditative experimental short films.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 71
35. Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959)
11 min | Short, Romance
We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home. It's night, she sees his reflection... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 800
36. Comingled Containers (1997)
5 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage focusing on flashing light and photographic images.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 865
37. The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981)
G | 3 min | Short
A collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem, leaf, bud, or petal. Often we see only ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 875
38. Dog Star Man: Part II (1963)
7 min | Short, Drama
The second part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Star: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,197
39. Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (1991)
10 min | Short
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 667
40. Eye Myth (1977)
1 min | Short
After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid change in the images. Two figures emerge from... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,117
41. Rage Net (1988)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 789
42. I... Dreaming (1988)
8 min | Short, Biography
Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally joined by a chorus, sings phrases of sorrow ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Bearthm Brakhage, Neowyn Brakhage, Rarc Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Votes: 664
43. Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1 (1969)
25 min | Short, Drama
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which combines color, lights, and blurred images of children. This is part of the Scenes from Under Childhood Series.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 350
45. Invocation: Maya Deren (1987)
53 min | Documentary, Biography
An authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, ... See full summary »
Director: Jo Ann Kaplan | Stars: Helen Mirren, Jana Shelden, Maya Deren, Teiji Ito
Votes: 32
46. Lovesong (2001)
11 min | Short
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 567
47. 23rd Psalm Branch: Part I (1967)
33 min | Short, War
An experimental film with various flashing lights, colors, and World War II footage. This is part of the Song series by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 260
49. Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
11 min | Short, Drama
The third part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,159
50. A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea (1991)
80 min
In his description for A CHILD'S GARDEN, Brakhage quotes from poets Ronald Johnson and Charles Olson.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 65