The Visions of Stan Brakhage

Experimental Response Cinema presents three nights of his work

"...hard to know where to begin. With experimental pioneer Stan Brakhage, whose work stretched from experiential documentaries to hand-crafted..."

Feb. 10, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Stan Brakhage

Remembering Stan Brakhage, a giant of experimental film.

"...than just a key figure in the experimental-film movement, Stan Brakhage was one of the most vital and radically..."

April 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Film at Wit's End

An Interview With Stan Brakhage

"...Stan Brakhage, the de facto Godfather of American experimental cinema,..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Further Reflections

"...a dance in several movements, and light is its constant partner. Beautifully shot and exquisitely performed, The Book of..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Maverick Outsider

Avant-garde artist Willie Varela discusses politics, the nature of personal work, a career on the fringes, and what it's like to be a Chicano filmmaker.

"...none other than the "dean" of American experimental filmmakers, Stan Brakhage, as follows: "Willie, you're a master in the..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Athina Rachel Tsangari

On the Road, From San Fran to Taipei

Two new film series bebop and globe-hop

"...Beat Film Series covers the gamut, examining everything from Stan Brakhage's experimental films to Shirley Clarke's abstract expressionism and..."

March 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Raymond Blanton

Short Cuts

A new film series begins at the Off Center, introducing avant-garde films and a new theatrical venue to Austin moviegoers.

"...and 9:30pm is a double bill featuring experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage's 1971 grand mal autopsy film The Act of..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Skinamarink

Avant-garde horror strains eyes and patience

"...its residents, Skinamarink owes more to avant-garde visualists like Stan Brakhage than Sam Raimi, a mishmash of Creepypasta aesthetics..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

AFS Asks You to Love Film

Special cinematic treat for Valentine's Day week

"...of experimentalism in Experimental Response Cinema: The Films of Stan Brakhage (Feb. 11)...."

Feb. 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Willie Varela: Renegade

"...a camera by the examples of John Lennon and Stan Brakhage, Varela has been making movies since the early..."

May 21, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Structuralist, Collagist and Surrealist Film: The Poetics of Avant-Garde Cinema

"...“The Way to Shadow Garden” (1955) by a young Stan Brakhage; “Radio Dynamics” (1943) by abstract experimentalist Oskar Fischinger;..."

July 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes

"...Directed by: Stan Brakhage. Stan Brakhage, the patron saint of the personal..."

Jan. 4, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Waking Dream

Film collective in*situ screens the animation of Harry Smith, avant-garde filmmaker.

"...an artistic method that's influenced many subsequent artists, including Stan Brakhage, the foremost practitioner of this technique...."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Chris Baker

Willie Varela: Maverick Outsider

"...a camera by the examples of John Lennon and Stan Brakhage, Varela has been making movies since the early..."

Oct. 28, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sending Off SXSW 2003

Film Reviews

"...the unexpected death of pioneering experimental filmmaker and avant-gardist Stan Brakhage, nothing is more apparent than that late cineaste's..."

March 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

SXSW Film Festival 03 update

"...it feels like it belongs. Finally... Pioneering experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage passed away last Sunday, March 9, in Victoria,..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Shortcuts

"...183. Already, we are seeing some changes in the standard exhibition patterns in the north end of town. The..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

"...started programming screenings and events with such delirious energy, constancy, and fervor that we'd be overcome with joy if..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Structuralist, Collagist, and Surrealist Film: The Poetics of Avant-Garde Cinema

"...The Way to Shadow Garden (1955) D: Stan Brakhage. (10 min.)..."

July 13, 2001 Screens Feature

Richard Whittaker’s Top 10 Films of 2023

"...Symphonic History, a movie that combines Disney history with Stan Brakhage visuals...."

Dec. 15, 2023 Screens Feature

AFS Celebrates Culture-Defying Movies With Film as a Subversive Art

Revolution in the cinema

"...bleeding-edge filmmakers, from Agnès Varda to John Cassavetes to Stan Brakhage, Yasujir Ozu, Richard Lester, and more. In doing..."

July 15, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: Behold! The Mad God, Phil Tippett

The stop motion legend's most personal and bizarre movie yet

"...mechanical injustice to Detroit in Robocop, before applying his understanding of motion to computers to make dinosaurs walk in..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Film Society That Brought Indie and Arthouse to Austin Returns

AFS hosts a series of the movies that inspired Cinema 40

"...John Cassavetes and Nagisa Oshima, and avant-garde pioneers like Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger, so Barrios wanted to introduce..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

High Fashion Goes Hyperreal at Diptych II

The local fashion collective’s second spectacle of new designs

"...in the show,” says Hadfield, who studied at the Stan Brakhage film school at the University of Colorado. “We..."

May 2, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVDanger: Arrow to the Brain

Three titles from the American Genre Film Archive's new partner

"...fused the avant garde influences of Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage with his urge to be commercially successful. He'd..."

Jan. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Protextor’s Fleshlight-Funded Video

“Safe consensual sex is hot”

"...clean, unhurried, dreamlike style owing more to filmmakers like Stan Brakhage and Lars von Trier than Bang Bros. The..."

Jan. 3, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...rooms, one of which was a darkroom where various substances were consumed, relationships consummated, and tears shed. But with..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Experimental Response Cinema Rises to the Surface

Avant-gardians of Austin’s underground films

"...was a "bummer" that "anything else that's newer" than Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, or Kenneth Anger "was a crapshoot."..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Darling Mickey

Prolific director Mickey Keating dials in to the Sixties

"...1:1.66 ratio as a deliberate homage to Repulsion and Stanley Kubrick's early work, Keating describes Darling as "a Sixties-style..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Feed an Artist, Nourish the World

Austin School of Film underground and avant-garde shorts

"...Dalí) and his cinematic progeny, among them Guy Debord, Stan Brakhage, and Chris Marker, it's unlikely we'd have contemporary..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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