Early & Late Brakhage: Academy Restorations
Since 2004, the Academy Film Archive has been the home of the collection of experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933–2003).
Since 2004, the Academy Film Archive has been the home of the collection of experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933–2003). With a career that spanned more than fifty years, Brakhage’s influence and legacy as an artist of radical innovation cannot be overstated. Ultimately producing a body of work comprising well over three hundred films, Brakhage tirelessly pursued ever-evolving articulations of intimate human vision and experience, inspiring generations of filmmakers in the global avant-garde, as well as directors such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas.
The Academy has restored several dozen films by Brakhage, but because of the sheer volume of his output, restoration work is always ongoing. For this program, in the year that would have marked his 90th birthday, we are pleased to present a sampling of restoration work of Brakhage's films by the Academy Film Archive, with a unique focus on films drawn from his earliest years of production alongside films from his last years of activity.