Songs

TOTAL BINGE TIME: 4h 44m

The Definitive Watch Order & Chronological Timeline

Song 1

Released: 1964 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 4.4

SONG 1: Portrait of a lady (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1964

Song 2

Released: 1964 // Runtime: 2m // Rating: 4.2

SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1964

Song 3

Released: 1964 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 4.2

SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1964

Song 4

Released: 1964 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 4.5

SONG 4: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1964

Song 5

Released: 1964 // Runtime: 5m // Rating: 4.2

SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1964

Song 6

Released: 1964 // Runtime: 2m // Rating: 4.2

SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1964

Song 7

Released: 1964 // Runtime: 2m // Rating: 4.3

SONG 7: San Francisco (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1964

Song 8

Released: 1964 // Runtime: 4m // Rating: 4.4

SONG 8: Sea Creatures. The Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1963 to 1969.

1964

Song 9

Released: 1965 // Runtime: 4m // Rating: 4.2

SONG 9: Wedding source and substance (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1965

#10

Song 10

Released: 1965 // Runtime: 2m // Rating: 3.9

SONG 10: Sitting around (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1965

#11

Song 11

Released: 1965 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 3.9

SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1965

#12

Song 12

Released: 1965 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 4.2

SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1965

#13

Song 13

Released: 1965 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 4.2

SONG 13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1965

#14

Song 14

Released: 1965 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 4.2

SONG 14: Molds, paints and crystals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1965

#15

15 Song Traits

Released: 1965 // Runtime: 31m // Rating: 8.0

A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1 thru 14. On order of appearance: Robert Kelly, Jane and our dog Durin, our boys Bearthm and Rarc, daughter Crystal and the canary Cheep Donkey, Robert Creely and Michael McClure, the rest of our girls Myrrena and Neowyn, Angelo Dibenedetto, Ed Dorn and his family and Jonas Mekas (to whom the FIFTEEN SONG TRAITS is dedicated), as well as some few strangers, were the source of these TRAITS coming into being – my thanks to all... and to all who see them clearly (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1965

#16

Song 16

Released: 1966 // Runtime: 7m // Rating: 8.0

SONG 16: A flowering of sex as in the mind’s eye, a joy (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1966

#17

Song 17

Released: 1966 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 8.0

SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1966

#18

Song 18

Released: 1966 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 8.0

SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1966

#19

Song 19

Released: 1966 // Runtime: 8m // Rating: 8.0

SONGS 19: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1966

#20

Song 20

Released: 1966 // Runtime: 4m // Rating: 8.0

SONGS 19 & 20: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1966

#21

Song 21

Released: 1966 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 8.0

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1966

#22

Song 22

Released: 1966 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 6.5

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1966

#23

23rd Psalm Branch

Released: 1967 // Runtime: 63m // Rating: 8.2

Made during the height of the Vietnam War, Stan Brakhage has said of this film that he was hoping to bring some clarity to the subject of war. Characteristically for Brakhage there is no direct reference to Vietnam.

1967

#24

Song 24

Released: 1967 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 8.0

SONGS 24 & 25: A naked boy and flute song; a being about nature (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1967

#25

Song 25

Released: 1967 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 8.0

SONGS 24 & 25: A naked boy and flute song; a being about nature (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1967

#26

Song 26

Released: 1968 // Runtime: 6m // Rating: 8.0

SONG 26: a conversation piece–a viz-a-visual, inspired by the (e)motional properties of talk: drone, bird-like twitterings, statement terror, & bombast (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1968

#27

My Mountain: Song 27

Released: 1968 // Runtime: 25m // Rating: 6.7

Image-by-image study of the Arapaho summit, in all seasons for two years; the clouds and the climate that carve this place in the landscape (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1968

#28

Song 28

Released: 1969 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 8.0

Song 28: Scenes as texture (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1969

#29

Song 29

Released: 1969 // Runtime: 3m // Rating: 8.0

SONG 29: A portrait of the artist's mother (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1969

#30

American 30s Song

Released: 1969 // Runtime: 23m // Rating: 4.5

“Begins with a portrait of the filmmaker’s father, moves through imagery of various forms of transportation (cars, boats, trains, and planes), and concludes with a ‘Postlude’ in which filmmaker Jerome Hill deplanes from a jet.” –Gerald R. Barrett & Wendy Brabner, STAN BRAKHAGE: A GUIDE TO REFERENCES AND RESOURCES

1969

#31

Window Suite of Children's Songs

Released: 1969 // Runtime: 18m // Rating: 0.0

“Films made by the five Brakhage children; Brakhage arranged them in this form but did not edit them.” –Robert Haller

1969

#32

My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers

Released: 1969 // Runtime: 33m // Rating: 8.0

Second Part of Song 27 (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

1969