Brakhage, Stan

Stan Brakhage was born 14 January 1933, in Kansas City, MO, and adopted by Ludwig (a shoe salesman) and Clara (Dubberstein) Brakhage . He attended Dartmouth College for two months. He is an Independent filmmaker and currently professor of film history at the University of Colorado . Brakhage has also lectured in film history and aesthetics at Art Institute of Chicago and at colleges in the United States and Europe . He is a member of selection committee for the Anthology of Cinema .

Brakhage's work has received the following awards: Independent Film Award, Film Culture, 1962; Avon Foundation grant, 1965-69; Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, 1967-69; Brandeis citation, 1973; Colorado Governor's Award for Arts and Humanities, 1974; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1975, 1977, 1980, and 1983; Guggenheim fellowship, 1978; James Ryan Morris Foundation award, 1979; Telluride Film Festival medallion, 1981; honorary doctorate from San Francisco Art Institute, 1981; University of Colorado Council on Research and Creative Works grant, 1983.

A bibliography of his work includes: Metaphors on Vision, 1962; The Brakhage Lectures, Volume I, 1970, Volume II, 1972; A Moving Picture Giving and Taking Book, 1972, Seen, 1975, Film Biographies, 1977, Brakhage Scrapbook: Collected Writings, 1964-1980, 1983.

Screenplays; and director: “Interim,” 1952, “Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection,” 1953, “Desistfilm,” 1954, “The Way to Shadow Garden,” 1954, “In Between,” 1955, “Reflections on Black,” 1955, “The Wonder Ring,” 1955, “Flesh of Morning,” 1956, “Nightcats,” 1956, “Daybreak and Whiteye,” 1957, “Loving,” 1957, “Anticipation of the Night,” 1958, “Wedlock House: An Intercourse,” 1959, “Window Water Baby Moving,” 1959, “Cat's Cradle,” 1959, “Sirius Remembered,” 1959, “The Dead,” 1960, “Thigh Line Lyre Triangular,” 1961, “Films by Stan Brakhage : An Avant-Garde Home Movie,” 1961, “Blue Moses,” 1962, “O Life—a Woe Story—The A-Test News,” 1963, “Mothlight,” 1963, “Songs” (29 films), 1964-69, “Dog Star Man,” 1964, “The Art of Vision,” 1965, “Three Films: Blue White, Blood's Tone, and Vein,” 1965, “Fire of Waters,” 1965, “Pasht,” 1965, “Two: Creeley/McClure,” 1965, “Black Vision,” 1965, “The 23rd Psalm Branch,” 1966, “The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth,” 1968, “Lovemaking,” 1968, “Scenes from Under Childhood,” 1970, “The Weir-Falcon Saga,” 1970, “Sexual Meditations” (6 films), 1970-72, “The Machine of Eden,” 1970, “The Animals of Eden and After,” 1970, “Eyes,” 1971, “Deus Ex,” 1971, “The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes,” 1971, “Foxfire Childwatch,” 1971, “Angels',” 1971, “Door,” 1971, “Western Holiday,” 1971, “The Trip to Door,” 1971, “The Peaceable Kingdom,” 1971, “Eye Myth,” 1972, “The Process,” 1972, “The Riddle of Lumen,” 1972, “The Shores of Phos: A Fable,” 1972, “The Presence,” 1972, “The Wold-Shadow,” 1972, “Gift,” 1972, “The Women,” 1973, “Sincerity,” 1973, “Shein,” 1974, “Aquarien,” 1974, “Sol,” 1974, “Flight,” 1974, “Dominion,” 1974, “Hymn to Her,” 1974, “Clancy,” 1974, “He was born, he suffered, he died,” 1974, “Star Garden,” 1974, “The Text of Light,” 1974, “The Stars Are Beautiful,” 1974, “Sincerity II,” 1975, “Short Films: 1975,” 1975, “Short Films: 1976,” 1976, “Tragoedia,” 1976, “Gadflies,” 1976, “Sketches,” 1976, “Airs,” 1976, “Trio,” 1976, “Window,” 1976, “Desert,” 1976, “Highs,” 1976, “Absence,” 1976, “Rembrandt, etc., and Jane,” 1976, “The Dream, NYC, the Return, the Flower,” 1976, “Soldiers and Other Cosmic Subjects,” 1977, “The Governor,” 1977, “The Domain of the Moment,” 1977, “Nightmare Series,” 1978, “Purity and After,” 1978, “Centre,” 1978, “Bird,” 1978, “Thot-Fal'n,” 1978, “Burial Path,” 1978, “Sluice,” 1978, “Creation,” 1979, “@,” 1979, “Salome,” 1980, “Other,” 1980, “Sincerity Series,” 1980, “Duplicity Series,” 1980, “Roman Numeral Series” (9 films), 1980, “Made Manifest,” 1980, “Aftermath,” 1980, “Murder Psalm,” 1981, “Nodes,” 1981, “Arabic Numeral Series” (19 films), 1981, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” 1981, “RR,” 1981, “Wedding,” 1981, “Unconscious London Strata,” 1982, “Hell Spit Flexion,” 1983, “Tortured Dust,” 1984, “Egyptian Series,” 1984.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 1999.

From the guide to the Stan Brakhage Papers., undated, 1953-1966., (Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center .)