By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two #518 USED

Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were created without using a camera at all, as he pioneered the art of making images directly on film, by drawing, painting, and scratching. With these two volumes, we present the definitive Brakhage collection—fifty-six of his works, from across his career, in high-definition digital transfers.

THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

VOLUME ONE

High-definition digital transfers of all twenty-six films, with uncompressed audio for those with sound
Brakhage on Brakhage, four video encounters with the filmmaker
Audio remarks on selected films by director Stan Brakhage

VOLUME TWO
New high-definition digital transfers of all thirty films, with uncompressed audio for those with sound
Brakhage on Brakhage, three video encounters with the filmmaker
For Stan, a 2009 short film by Brakhage’s wife, Marilyn Brakhage
Two segments from a 1990 video interview with Brakhage for the Boulder Arts Commission
Footage from Brakhage’s Sunday salons at the University of Colorado
Audio recordings of two lectures by Brakhage, one from the Beckwith Lecture Series and one on Gertrude Stein’s poem Stanzas in Meditation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a foreword and program notes by Marilyn Brakhage, film capsules and an essay by Brakhage expert Fred Camper