Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden recognition of Maya’s intrinsic love…

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered pale-hued areas of paint in such a way as to suggest a clearing…

Part of Three Hand-Painted Films

A short film by Stan Brakhage

Jane and the kids go to town.

The Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969.

Hand painting, dye treatments and direct collage edited into ‘themes and variations’ that tell ‘a thousand and one’ stories. – Stan Brakhage