Stan Brakhage — Actor (31)
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Faust's Other: An Idyll (1988) IMDb TMDB
Faust's Other: An Idyll
director: Stan Brakhage actor: Stan Brakhage / Joel Haertling
“Faust Part 2” reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from the Greek idein, "to see"); also, a journey of the id. A sense of story is inferred through the complex interweaving of human gesture, expression, and bodily movement within vibrantly shifting colours and rhythmic development, creating multiple levels of metaphorical meaning. A collaborative work with paintings by Emily Ripley and soundtrack by Joel Haertling.
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The Extraordinary Child (1954) IMDb TMDB
The Extraordinary Child
director: 斯坦·布拉哈格 actor: Robert Benson / 斯坦·布拉哈格 …
The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars. Everyone mugs hilariously. The movie could be taken as another example of the Romantic notion of the artist as a monstrous child or misfit, or a parody of the same rather than the personal confessional statement seen so often in these film movements.
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Invocation: Maya Deren (1986) IMDb TMDB Douban
Invocation: Maya Deren
director: 乔·安·卡普兰 actor: 海伦·米伦 / Jana Shelden …
other title: 求祈：玛雅·黛伦
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, and recordings of her lectures. Narrated by actress Helen Mirren, this definitive documentary offers startling insights into one of the most intriguing, accomplished figures in cinema history.
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抽象电影 (1993) Douban
Abstract Cinema
director: 凯斯·格里菲斯 actor: 斯坦·布拉哈格 / 朱勒·恩格尔 …
other title: Abstract Cinema
Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking.
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Watunna (1989) Douban
director: Stacey Steers actor: Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage steps out of his usual role as experimental filmmaker to narrate animated visualizations of Venezuelan creation myths.
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The Art of Vision (1965) IMDb TMDB Douban
The Art of Vision
director: Stan Brakhage actor: Stan Brakhage / Jane Wodening
other title: 视觉的艺术 / 시각의 기법
A deconstruction of Dog Star Man that takes the four rolls and shows them first combined, then each combination of three rolls, then each combination of two rolls, then each individual roll. The plot is of a man who goes up a mountain with a dog to chop down a tree but has some unspecified transcendental experience while he is there.
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Dog Star Man: Part IV (2004) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Dog Star Man: Part IV
director: 斯坦·布拉哈格 actor: 斯坦·布拉哈格
other title: 狗·星·人：第四部分 / 狗星人第四部分
A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant is born. We see a lactating nipple. Images include a mountain peak, farm buildings, a tree stump, a fire, a crawling baby, and the sun. The man falls and rolls. Then, later, he swings his ax.
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Dog Star Man: Part III (2004) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Dog Star Man: Part III
director: 斯坦·布拉哈格 actor: 斯坦·布拉哈格
other title: 狗·星·人：第三部分 / 狗星人第三部分
Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, a man and a woman's, close up, nude - patches of skin, wisps of hair, glimpses of a face and genitalia; strips of celluloid with lines and squiggles scratched on them; and, close-up shots of what appear to be the insides of living bodies - a heart beating, muscle and sinew and tissue wet with fluids. The exterior and interior of desire.
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Birth of a Nation (1997) Douban
Birth of a Nation
director: 乔纳斯·梅卡斯 actor: 香特尔·阿克曼 / 肯尼思·安格 …
other title: 一个国家的诞生
One hundred and sixty portraits or rather appearances, sketches and glimpses of avant-garde, independent filmmakers and film activists between 1955 and 1996.
Why BIRTH OF A NATION? Because the film independents IS a nation in itself. We are surrounded by commercial cinema Nation same way as the indigenous people of the United States or of any other country are surrounded by Ruling Powers.
We are the invisible, but essential nation of cinema. We are Cinema.
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Jonas in the Desert (1994) IMDb TMDB Douban
Jonas in the Desert
director: Peter Sempel actor: Jonas Mekas / 阿道法斯·梅卡斯 …
other title: 沙漠中的乔纳斯
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.