Dog Star Man by Stan Brakhage
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One of the most radically inventive works of the American avant-garde, Stan Brakhage’s five-part epic blurs psychological and cosmological scales of perception. The film follows a mythical narrative of a woodsman ascending a snowy mountain, with Brakhage employing astrophotography, multiple superimpositions, rapid montage, and handpainting to create a dream of subjective experience. Inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1992, the film is presented on a rarely screened 16mm print from the Walker’s collection. 1961–64, US, 16mm, silent, 78 min.
Part of Cinema Revived: Timeless Selections from the Vault, an ongoing presentation of notable feature-length films from the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection.
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Stan Brakhage (1933–2003) was one the most influential and prolific filmmakers in the American avant-garde. Across his 50-year career, he produced over 300 films that sought a subjective, expressionist cinematic language he called “closed-eye vision.” After discovering filmmaking in the 1950s, Brakhage moved between artist communities in San Francisco and New York, producing 16mm films characterized by fluid camera movement, rapid cutting, and direct manipulations of the film strip. In the 1960s and ’70s, Brakhage continued making films and found recognition for the aesthetic singularity of works like the multi-part epic Dog Star Man (1961–64), the camera-less direct animation Mothlight (1963), and the minimalist optical experiment The Text of Light (1974). Brakhage taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Colorado Boulder, and continued to make films until his death.
Content and sensory note: This film contains rapid, flashing images and nudity.
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Dates & Tickets
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Thu Apr 02, 2026
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