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)
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One: Working completely outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage has made nearly four hundred films over the past half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of: birth, sex, death, and the search for God, Brakhage has turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even actual autopsy.
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two: In our 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.