By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two. Stan Brakhage, 1954-2003.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-rays #184, and #517, included in the 3-Blu-ray box set #518, released 2010. Mostly silent. Cumulative runtime of Volume 1, originally released on Criterion DVD in 2003, approximately 243 minutes. Cumulative runtime of Volume 2, originally released on Criterion Blu-ray in 2010, approximately 454 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of human violence toward animals, but two documents of dead animals in nature.
Details:
1) Volume 2, Disc 1, Program 3 - Burial Path: Beginning at 13:45 and continuing through 14:08, a dead young Robin is found and sensitively buried under moss.
2) Volume 2, Disc 1, Program 3 - The Domain of the Moment: Beginning at 49:07 and continuing through 52:56, we see documentary footage of a snake constricting and swallowing a mouse or guinea pig.
This set contains 56 works by Stan Brakhage, including such appropriately famous films as Dog Star Man (1961-64), The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (1971), and Mothlight (1963). Brakhage’s stunning oeuvre explores the nature of sight and vision through the creation of films with unorthodox content and technique. Most are extremely beautiful creations, most are enlightening viewing experiences.
Volume 1:
Desistfilm - 1954 • 6 minutes, 48 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
Wedlock House: An Intercourse - 1959 • 10 minutes, 47 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Dog Star Man - 1961-64 • 74 minutes, 34 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
The Act of Seeing with one’s own eyes - 1971 • 31 minutes, 50 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Cat’s Cradle - 1959 • 6 minutes, 16 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Window Water Baby Moving - 1959 • 12 minutes, 11 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Mothlight - 1963 • 3 minutes, 13 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Eye Myth - 1967 • 9 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
The Wold-Shadow - 1972 • 2 minutes, 24 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
The Garden of Earthly Delight - 1981 • 1 minute, 43 seconds • 35 mm • Silent
The Stars Are Beautiful - 1974 • 18 minutes, 27 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
Kindering - 1987 • 2 minutes, 51 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
I . . . Dreaming - 1988 • 6 minutes, 35 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
The Dante Quartet - 1987 • 6 minutes, 3 seconds • 35 mm • Silent
Night Music - 1986 • 30 seconds • 35 mm • Silent
Rage Net - 1988 • 35 seconds • 35 mm • Silent
Glaze of Cathexis - 1990 • 35 seconds • 35 mm • Silent
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse - 1990 • 8 minutes, 16 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Untitled (For Marilyn) - 1992 • 10 minutes, 27 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Black Ice - 1994 • 1 minute, 49 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Study in color and black and white - 1993 • 1 minute, 35 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Stellar - 1993 • 2 minutes, 19 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Crack Glass Eulogy - 1991 • 6 minutes, 6 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
The Dark Tower - 1999 • 2 minutes, 19 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Commingled Containers - 1996 • 2 minutes, 42 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Love Song - 2001 • 10 minutes, 48 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Volume 2:
Program 1: 1955–67
The Wonder Ring - 1955 • 5 minutes, 34 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
The Dead - 1960 • 10 minutes, 21 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Two: Creeley/McClure - 1965 • 3 minutes, 11 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
23rd Psalm Branch - 1967 • 63 minutes, 47 seconds • 8 mm • Silent
Program 2: 1967–76
Scenes From Under Childhood, Section One - 1967 • 23 minutes, 46 seconds • 16 mm • Silent/Monaural
The Machine of Eden - 1970 • 10 minutes, 45 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Star Garden - 1974 • 20 minutes, 58 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Desert - 1976 • 10 minutes, 7 seconds • Super 8 mm • Silent
Program 3: 1972–82
The Process - 1972 • 8 minutes, 1 second • 16 mm • Silent
Burial Path - 1978 • 8 minutes, 2 seconds • Super 8 mm • Silent
Duplicity III - 1980 • 22 minutes, 18 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
The Domain of the Moment - 1977 • 14 minutes, 33 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Murder Psalm - 1980 • 16 minutes, 24 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Arabic 12 - 1982 • 17 minutes, 1 second • Super 8 mm • Silent
Program 4: 1989–90
Visions in Meditation #1 - 1989 • 16 minutes, 19 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Visions in Meditation #2 (Mesa Verde) - 1989 • 16 minutes, 9 seconds •16 mm • Silent
Visions in Meditation #3 (Plato’s Cave) - 1990 • 16 minutes, 36 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
Visions in Meditation #4 (D. H. Lawrence) - 1990 • 17 minutes, 41 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Program 5: 1982, 1992, 1994
Unconscious London Strata - 1982 • 22 minutes, 15 seconds • Super 8 mm • Silent
Boulder Blues and Pearls And ... - 1992 • 22 minutes, 24 seconds • 16 mm • Monaural
The Mammals of Victoria - 1994 • 34 minutes, 9 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
From: First Hymn to the Night - Novalis - 1994 • 2 minutes, 52 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Program 6: 1995-2003
I Take These Truths - 1995 • 17 minutes, 44 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
The Cat of the Worm’s Green Realm - 1997 • 14 minutes, 10 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind - 1997 • 16 minutes, 58 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
“. . .” Reel Five - 1998 • 14 minutes, 6 seconds • 16 mm • Stereo
Persian Series 1-3 - 1999 • Total run time: 5 minutes, 54 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
Chinese Series - 2003 • 2 minutes, 18 seconds • 35 mm • Silent