Skip to main content

Stan Brakhage Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-0199

Scope and Content

The collection contains Brakhage's correspondence to Robert Duncan, Jess Collins and Mary Shore and a celluloid strip from the film “Mothlight”.

Dates

  • undated, 1953-1966

Access

The collection is open and available for research.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.

Biography

Stan Brakhage was born 14 January 1933, in Kansas City, MO, and adopted by Ludwig (a shoe salesman) and Clara (Dubberstein) Brakhage. He attended Dartmouth College for two months. He is an Independent filmmaker and currently professor of film history at the University of Colorado. Brakhage has also lectured in film history and aesthetics at Art Institute of Chicago and at colleges in the United States and Europe. He is a member of selection committee for the Anthology of Cinema.

Brakhage's work has received the following awards: Independent Film Award, Film Culture, 1962; Avon Foundation grant, 1965-69; Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, 1967-69; Brandeis citation, 1973; Colorado Governor's Award for Arts and Humanities, 1974; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1975, 1977, 1980, and 1983; Guggenheim fellowship, 1978; James Ryan Morris Foundation award, 1979; Telluride Film Festival medallion, 1981; honorary doctorate from San Francisco Art Institute, 1981; University of Colorado Council on Research and Creative Works grant, 1983.

A bibliography of his work includes: Metaphors on Vision, 1962; The Brakhage Lectures, Volume I, 1970, Volume II, 1972; A Moving Picture Giving and Taking Book, 1972, Seen, 1975, Film Biographies, 1977, Brakhage Scrapbook: Collected Writings, 1964-1980, 1983.

Screenplays; and director: “Interim,” 1952, “Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection,” 1953, “Desistfilm,” 1954, “The Way to Shadow Garden,” 1954, “In Between,” 1955, “Reflections on Black,” 1955, “The Wonder Ring,” 1955, “Flesh of Morning,” 1956, “Nightcats,” 1956, “Daybreak and Whiteye,” 1957, “Loving,” 1957, “Anticipation of the Night,” 1958, “Wedlock House: An Intercourse,” 1959, “Window Water Baby Moving,” 1959, “Cat's Cradle,” 1959, “Sirius Remembered,” 1959, “The Dead,” 1960, “Thigh Line Lyre Triangular,” 1961, “Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie,” 1961, “Blue Moses,” 1962, “O Life—a Woe Story—The A-Test News,” 1963, “Mothlight,” 1963, “Songs” (29 films), 1964-69, “Dog Star Man,” 1964, “The Art of Vision,” 1965, “Three Films: Blue White, Blood's Tone, and Vein,” 1965, “Fire of Waters,” 1965, “Pasht,” 1965, “Two: Creeley/McClure,” 1965, “Black Vision,” 1965, “The 23rd Psalm Branch,” 1966, “The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth,” 1968, “Lovemaking,” 1968, “Scenes from Under Childhood,” 1970, “The Weir-Falcon Saga,” 1970, “Sexual Meditations” (6 films), 1970-72, “The Machine of Eden,” 1970, “The Animals of Eden and After,” 1970, “Eyes,” 1971, “Deus Ex,” 1971, “The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes,” 1971, “Foxfire Childwatch,” 1971, “Angels',” 1971, “Door,” 1971, “Western Holiday,” 1971, “The Trip to Door,” 1971, “The Peaceable Kingdom,” 1971, “Eye Myth,” 1972, “The Process,” 1972, “The Riddle of Lumen,” 1972, “The Shores of Phos: A Fable,” 1972, “The Presence,” 1972, “The Wold-Shadow,” 1972, “Gift,” 1972, “The Women,” 1973, “Sincerity,” 1973, “Shein,” 1974, “Aquarien,” 1974, “Sol,” 1974, “Flight,” 1974, “Dominion,” 1974, “Hymn to Her,” 1974, “Clancy,” 1974, “He was born, he suffered, he died,” 1974, “Star Garden,” 1974, “The Text of Light,” 1974, “The Stars Are Beautiful,” 1974, “Sincerity II,” 1975, “Short Films: 1975,” 1975, “Short Films: 1976,” 1976, “Tragoedia,” 1976, “Gadflies,” 1976, “Sketches,” 1976, “Airs,” 1976, “Trio,” 1976, “Window,” 1976, “Desert,” 1976, “Highs,” 1976, “Absence,” 1976, “Rembrandt, etc., and Jane,” 1976, “The Dream, NYC, the Return, the Flower,” 1976, “Soldiers and Other Cosmic Subjects,” 1977, “The Governor,” 1977, “The Domain of the Moment,” 1977, “Nightmare Series,” 1978, “Purity and After,” 1978, “Centre,” 1978, “Bird,” 1978, “Thot-Fal'n,” 1978, “Burial Path,” 1978, “Sluice,” 1978, “Creation,” 1979, “@,” 1979, “Salome,” 1980, “Other,” 1980, “Sincerity Series,” 1980, “Duplicity Series,” 1980, “Roman Numeral Series” (9 films), 1980, “Made Manifest,” 1980, “Aftermath,” 1980, “Murder Psalm,” 1981, “Nodes,” 1981, “Arabic Numeral Series” (19 films), 1981, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” 1981, “RR,” 1981, “Wedding,” 1981, “Unconscious London Strata,” 1982, “Hell Spit Flexion,” 1983, “Tortured Dust,” 1984, “Egyptian Series,” 1984.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 1999.

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Stan Brakhage was born 14 January 1933, in Kansas City, MO. He is an Independent filmmaker and currently professor of film history at the University of Colorado. Brakhage has also lectured in film history and aesthetics at Art Institute of Chicago and at colleges in the United States and Europe. He is a member of selection committee for the Anthology of Cinema.

Acquisition Information

Provenance is unknown.

Bibliography

Title
Stan Brakhage Papers
Status
Published
Author
Archives & Special Collections staff
Date
2000 January
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library Repository

Contact:
University of Connecticut Library
405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205
Storrs Connecticut 06269-1205 USA US
860-486-2524