Stan Brakhage filmography

Over the course of more than five decades, the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced a large body of work. All films in the filmography are assumed to be silent, in color, and are meant to be shown at 24 frames per second, unless otherwise noted. The Brakhage films, comprising his edited originals, intermediate elements, and other original material, are housed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive, where a long-term project is underway to preserve and restore his entire film output.
Fifty-six of these films are available on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.

1950s

Notes

During the late 1950s, Brakhage worked on several industrial films, many of them for the city of Pittsburgh.

Year	Title	Format	Length	Notes
1952	Interim	16 mm	minutes	Black-and-white; features music by James Tenney
1953	The Boy and the Sea	16 mm	2 minutes	Black-and-white
1953	Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection	16 mm	29 minutes	Black-and-white
1954	Desistfilm	16 mm	7 minutes	Black-and-white, sound
1954	The Extraordinary Child	16 mm	13 minutes	Black-and-white
1954	The Way to Shadow Garden	16 mm	minutes	Black-and-white, sound
1955	In Between	16 mm	minutes	First color film; features music by John Cage
1955	Reflections on Black	16 mm	12 minutes	Black-and-white, sound
1955	Untitled film of Geoffrey Holder’s Wedding	16 mm	Unknown	Co-directed with Larry Jordan
1955	The Wonder Ring	16 mm	6 minutes
1955–1956	Gnir Rednow	16 mm	6 minutes	Co-directed with Joseph Cornell
1955–1956	Centuries of June	16 mm	6 minutes	Co-directed with Joseph Cornell; also known as Tower House, Bolts of Melody, Portrait of June, and June
1956	Flesh of Morning	16 mm	22 minutes	Black-and-white, sound; revised by Brakhage in 1986
1956	Nightcats	16 mm	8 minutes
1956	Zone Moment	16 mm	3 minutes
1957	Daybreak and White Eye	16 mm	8 minutes	Black-and-white, sound
1957	Loving	16 mm	5 minutes
1958	Anticipation of the Night	16 mm	40 minutes
1959	Cat's Cradle	16 mm	6 minutes
1959	Sirius Remembered	16 mm	11 minutes
1959	Wedlock House: An Intercourse	16 mm	11 minutes	Black-and-white
1959	Window Water Baby Moving	16 mm	12 minutes

1960s

Industrial films and other works

In the early 1960s, Brakhage directed several industrial and educational films, including two for the state of Colorado. He also directed commercials for Rural Electric of Dakota. In 1969, Brakhage served as cinematographer on the short film Nuptiae, directed by James Broughton.

1970s

Other missing works

Around 1979, Brakhage produced as many as five films using the Polavision developed by Polaroid. These films are estimated to have been about minutes each in length. Their present whereabouts are unknown.