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Stan Brakhage
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American filmmaker and writer (1933–2003)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 20
Top works
- A Moving Picture Giving and Talking Book
- Hell spit flexion
- Firumu wākushoppu
- Qiong tu mo lu de dian ying
- The seen
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Film & TV
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Stan Brakhage is one of the most influential filmmakers in American avant-garde cinema, noted for his unflinching social commentaries and technical innovations. Over his nearly 40-year career, he has made over 200 films of varying length. He made his first film, Interim (1952) at age 18 after dropping out of college. Brakhage films seek to change the way we see. They encourage viewers to eschew…
Known for
- Brakhage on Brakhage — Self2025
- Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages2022
- Brakhage by Mothlight — Self (voice)2016
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film — Himself2011
- Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman2011
- For Stan — Himself2009
- Dinner with Brakhage and Gamow2008
- Brakhage Crosses Central Park — Self2006
- A Visit to Stan Brakhage2006
- Notes on Marie Menken — Self (archive footage)2006
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Stan Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. Brakhage was born as Robert Sanders in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri. Three weeks after his birth, he was adopted by Ludwig and Clara Brakhage, and he was given the name James Stanley Brakhage. As a child, he appeared on radio as a boy soprano before going to high school in Denver <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kansas City
- Place of death
- Victoria
- Occupation
- film producer
- Educated at
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- Documenta 5
- Field of work
- experimental film
- Image
- Stan Brakhage (circa 1976).jpg
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- name in native language
- James Stanley Brakhage
- date of birth
- 1933-01-14
- date of death
- 2003-03-09
- birth name
- Robert Sanders
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- cause of death
- bladder cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- influenced by
- Isidore Isou
- writing language
- English language
- archives at
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Commons category
- Stan Brakhage
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