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Stan Brakhage

Director · 440 credits · 100 in highly-rated films

Best known for As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)

Frequent collaborators: Jane Wodening, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs, Phil Solomon, Allen Ginsberg

Directed movies (379 total, ranked by score)

  1. Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

    1975

    331

  2. Self Song & Death Song

    1997

    332

  3. Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis

    1997

    333

  4. Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

    1975

    334

  5. Short Films 1975: #5 (Niagara Falls)

    1975

    335

  6. City Streaming

    1990

    Documentary

    336

  7. Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    1975

    337

  8. Absence

    1976

    338

  9. 20 Little Films

    2012

    Documentary

    339

  10. In Consideration of Pompeii

    1995

    340

  11. Gift

    1973

    341

  12. Roman Numeral: IX

    1980

    342

  13. Shockingly Hot

    1996

    343

  14. Tortured Dust Part 3

    1984

    344

  15. Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse

    1991

    345

  16. Sexual Saga

    1996

    346

  17. Tortured Dust Part 4

    1984

    347

  18. Worm and Web Love

    1999

    Documentary

    348

  19. Cannot Not Exist

    1994

    349

  20. The Aerodyne

    1986

    350

  21. Tortured Dust Part 1

    1984

    351

  22. Sluice

    1978

    352

  23. Lovesong 4

    2001

    353

  24. Lovesong 3

    2001

    354

  25. Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse

    1996

    355

  26. Tortured Dust Part 2

    1984

    356

  27. Jesus Trilogy and Coda

    2000

    357

  28. Aftermath

    1981

    358

  29. Lovesong 5 & 6

    2001

    359

  30. Cloud Chamber

    1999

    360

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.