Stan Brakhage - By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two

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Working outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly four hundred films. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of: birth, sex, death, and the search for God, Brakhage turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his

Working outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly four hundred films. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of: birth, sex, death, and the search for God, Brakhage turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all. Instead, Brakhage pioneered the art of making images directly on film--drawing, painting, and scratching it by hand. His visionary style has influenced everything from cartoons and television commercials to MTV music videos and the work of such mainstream moviemakers as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, and Oliver Stone. With these two volumes, we present the definitive Brakhage collection--fifty-six of his works in high-definition digital transfers, spanning his almost fifty-year career. (Films date from 1954-2003)
In the first volume of By Brakhage, we brought twenty-six astonishing works by the avant-garde film pioneer Stan Brakhage to home video. In this second installment, we are proud to present thirty more of Brakhage's innovative creations, from 1950s films to his final work, from 2003.

 
  • Includes the films:
  • Disc One
    Program 1: 1955–67

    THE WONDER RING
    1955 • 5 minutes, 34 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    THE DEAD
    1960 • 10 minutes, 21 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    TWO: CREELEY/MCCLURE
    1965 • 3 minutes, 11 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    23RD PSALM BRANCH
    1967 • 66 minutes, 47 seconds • 8 mm • Silent
    Program 2: 1967–76
    SCENES FROM UNDER CHILDHOOD, SECTION ONE
    1967 • 23 minutes, 46 seconds • 16 mm • Silent/Monaural
    THE MACHINE OF EDEN
    1970 • 10 minutes, 45 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    STAR GARDEN
    1974 • 20 minutes, 58 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    DESERT
    1976 • 10 minutes, 7 seconds • Super 8 mm • Silent
    Disc Two
    Program 3: 1972–82

    THE PROCESS
    1972 • 8 minutes, 1 second • 16 mm • Silent
    BURIAL PATH
    1978 • 8 minutes, 2 seconds • Super 8 mm • Silent
    DUPLICITY III
    1980 • 22 minutes, 18 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    THE DOMAIN OF THE MOMENT
    1977 • 14 minutes, 33 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    MURDER PSALM
    1980 • 16 minutes, 24 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    ARABIC 12
    1982 • 17 minutes, 1 second • Super 8 mm • Silent
    Program 4: 1989–90
    VISIONS IN MEDITATION #1
    1989 • 16 minutes, 19 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    VISIONS IN MEDITATION #2 (MESA VERDE)
    1989 • 16 minutes, 9 seconds •16 mm • Silent
    VISIONS IN MEDITATION #3 (PLATO’S CAVE)
    1990 • 16 minutes, 36 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
    VISIONS IN MEDITATION #4 (D. H. LAWRENCE)
    1990 • 17 minutes, 41 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    Disc Three
    Program 5: 1982, 1992, 1994

    UNCONSCIOUS LONDON STRATA
    1982 • 22 minutes, 15 seconds • Super 8 mm • Silent
    BOULDER BLUES AND PEARLS AND . . .
    1992 • 22 minutes, 24 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
    THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA
    1994 • 34 minutes, 9 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    FROM: FIRST HYMN TO THE NIGHT—NOVALIS
    1994 • 2 minutes, 52 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    Program 6: 1995–2003
    I TAKE THESE TRUTHS
    1995 • 17 minutes, 44 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    THE CAT OF THE WORM’S GREEN REALM
    1997 • 14 minutes, 10 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    YGGDRASILL: WHOSE ROOTS ARE STARS IN THE HUMAN MIND
    1997 • 16 minutes, 58 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    “. . .” REEL FIVE
    1998 • 14 minutes, 6 seconds • 16 mm • Stereo
    PERSIAN SERIES 1–3
    1999 • Total run time: 5 minutes, 54 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
    CHINESE SERIES
    2003 • 2 minutes, 18 seconds • 35 mm • Silent

    • Brakhage on Brakhage, three video encounters with the filmmaker
    • For Stan, a 2009 short film by Stan Brakhage’s wife, Marilyn Brakhage
    • Two segments from a 1990 video interview with Brakhage for the Boulder Arts Commission
    • Footage from Brakhage’s Sunday salons at the University of Colorado
    • Audio recordings of two lectures by Brakhage, one from the Beckwith Lecture Series and one on Gertrude Stein’s poem Stanzas in Meditation
    • PLUS: A booklet featuring program notes by Marilyn Brakhage, film capsules by Brakhage expert Fred Camper, and an essay on the films’ preservation by Mark Toscano of the Academy Film Archive

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Price: 

39.95 USD

Publisher: 

Label: 

Criterion

Publishing date: 

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Runtime: 

454

Discs: 

3

Language: 

English

Region: 

1

Video: 

NTSC

Aspect ratio: 

4:3

Colour: 

Colour & B&W

Sound: 

DD2.0