Over the course of more than five decades, the American experimental filmmaker

Stan Brakhage James Stanley Brakhage ( ; January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film. Over the course of five decades, Brakhage created a larg ...

produced a large body of work. All films in the

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are assumed to be silent, in

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, and are meant to be shown at 24 frames per second, unless otherwise noted. The Brakhage films, comprising his edited originals, intermediate elements, and other original material, are housed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive, where a long-term project is underway to preserve and restore his entire film output. Fifty-six of these films are available on

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(as two separate volumes) and

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from the Criterion Collection. __TOC__

1950s

Notes * During the late 1950s, Brakhage worked on several industrial films, many of them for the city of

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1960s

Industrial films and other works

In the early 1960s, Brakhage directed several industrial and

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s, including two for the state of

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. He also directed commercials for Rural Electric of Dakota. In 1969, Brakhage served as cinematographer on the short film ''Nuptiae'', directed by

James Broughton James Broughton (November 10, 1913 – May 17, 1999) was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries, as well as a member of ...

1970s

Other missing works

Around 1979, Brakhage produced as many as five films using the

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developed by Polaroid. These films are estimated to have been about minutes each in length. Their present whereabouts are unknown.

1980s

1990s

2000s

References

External links

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