1970s

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The caretaker of a girls’ school is charged with lewd behavior, and a number of students testify at the trial.Read More »

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Three sisters visiting their uncle in his island home, find themselves alone with the late uncle’s manservant. Their relations reveal a dark side in all of them, and gender, racial, and class tensions that lead to situations of humiliation, domination and sex, and death.Read More »

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A film critic obsessed with Casablanca (1942) seeks to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.Read More »

A European special agent suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.Read More »

Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fantastic, painted from the author own painting and also from the Hammer films and the Saxon plastic tradition of romanticism.Read More »

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Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable, Henry Spencer lives in a building that, like all the others, appears to be abandoned. The lights flicker on and off, he has bowls of water in his dresser drawers, and for his only diversion he watches and listens to the Lady in the Radiator sing about finding happiness in heaven. Henry has a girlfriend, Mary X, who has frequent spastic fits. Mary gives birth to Henry’s child, a frightening looking mutant, which leads to the injection of all sorts of sexual imagery into the depressive and chaotic mix.Read More »

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Sick of his job, bank clerk Inoue Norio becomes frightened of his partner’s death during S&M, and flees to the snow country of Hokuriku, where he meets a schoolgirl, Tanaka Sachiko. He gets on a train with nowhere to go, but there he meets a schoolgirl, Tanaka Sachiko, and becomes attracted to her. Intrigued by her, Inoue follows her out of the station and is accosted by Suzuki, a pimp, and they go to a house in the snow mountains. The house is a brothel for schoolgirls. He is reunited with Sachiko at the house, and begins his life as a pimp.Read More »

In the autobiographical traditional of earlier SINCERITIES, this film takes up the light-threads of our living 14 years ago when the Brakhage family found Home and ‘settled’, like they say, into some sense of permanence. This quality of living in one place tends to destroy most senses of chronology; thus, along lines-of-thought of growing and shifting physicality, events CAN seem to be occurring simultaneously (a thought-process ‘kin to that of THE DOMAIN OF THE MOMENT), and the memory of such a time IS prompted and sustained by details of living usually overlooked or taken-for-granted (such as Proust’s cookie which prompted ‘The Remembrance of Things Past’). Michael McClure’s ‘Fleas’ and Andrew Noren’s THE EXQUISITE CORPSE III were additional sources of inspiration for the making of this work.Read More »

Made with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts. This continuation of my autobiography is composed of film photographed by many people: Bruce Baillie, Jane Brakhage, Larry Jordan, and Stan Phillips, among others. Most of the footage is drawn from some 2,000 feet of ‘home movies,’ ‘out takes,’ and the like, salvaged from my photography over the years. It is of the Brakhage family’s coming into being. It is composed in the light of those electrical traces we call ‘memory’; and it is as true to that ‘thought process’ as I was enabled to make it.Read More »