Stan Brakhage — Actor (27)
Dog Star Man: Part I (2004) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dog Star Man: Part I
From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow. He carries an ax, and he's accompanied by a dog. His labors continue. There is no soundtrack. Images rush past - water, trees, and surfaces too close up to distinguish. He struggles. A fire burns. Nature, in long shots and magnified, is formidable and silent. It's tough going; he carries on. In a capillary, blood flows.
I...Dreaming (2004) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
I...Dreaming
8.0 (7 ratings) director: 斯坦·布拉哈格 actor: 斯坦·布拉哈格
other title: 我……做梦 / 我梦想
Extremely autobiographical piece made during an intensely depressive period for the filmmaker after his divorce from Jane, his first wife, and separation from his five children. Brakhage calls it "a true, narrative, dramatic psychodrama". The film's background music is a piece which is a collage of brief phrases from various Stephen Foster songs whose common theme is loss. Brakhage scratches individual words from these songs on the film at intervals, and the shaky letters dance uncertainly across the frame. The primary visual theme is of the 55-year-old filmmaker himself brooding in a lonely apartment, sitting on the floor leaning against a wall, repeatedly rising naked from his bed and falling back. This is intercut with footage made years earlier, in the 70s, when his children were much smaller, as they played happily in the home they once shared. Even at his very lowest point, Brakhage continued to turn his life into art.
Window Water Baby Moving (1959) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Window Water Baby Moving
7.8 (11 ratings) director: 斯坦·布拉哈格 actor: Jane Brakhage / Myrrena Brakhage
other title: 水窗中的颤动婴儿 / 水窗颤婴
他在《水窗中的颤动婴儿》(Window Water Baby Moving,1959)中,以倒叙和一连串的主题元素画面,描绘珍•布莱凯吉(Jane Brakhage)怀孕和生产的情景。
Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
Prelude: Dog Star Man
other title: 狗·星·人:序曲 / 狗星人序曲
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Images of our Earth appear, woods, a part of a body, a nude woman perhaps giving birth. Imagery evokes movement across time. Part of the Dog Star Man series of experimental films.
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) [Movie] Douban TMDB Eggplant.place WikiData IMDb
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
9.3 (7 ratings) director: 乔纳斯·梅卡斯 actor: 乔纳斯·梅卡斯 / 阿道法斯·梅卡斯
other title: En el camino, de cuando en cuando, vislumbré breves momentos de belleza / 当我往前走之时偶尔会瞥到一缕美丽之景
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
Diaries Notes and Sketches (1970) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Diaries Notes and Sketches
8.9 (9 ratings) director: 乔纳斯·梅卡斯 actor: 蒂莫西·利瑞 / 艾德·艾姆许维勒
other title: 笔记·日志·素描 / 瓦尔登
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it forms an epic, personal meditation on community, creativity, and the passage of time.