Movies: Jane Wodening

  • 2000
    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order....

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 1959
    Window Water Baby Moving

    Window Water Baby Moving (1959)

    Window Water Baby Moving

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    On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her. She gives birth: we see the crowning of the baby's...

    Window Water Baby Moving
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 2003
    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003) (2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

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    Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA hou...

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
  • 1962
    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    6.21962HD

    A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Imag...

    Prelude: Dog Star Man
  • 1965
    Dog Star Man

    Dog Star Man (1965)

    Dog Star Man

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    Experimental film following a cycle of seasons as well as the stretch of a single day as a man and his dog slowly ascend a mountain....

    Dog Star Man
  • 2013
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (2013)

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1974
    The Stars Are Beautiful

    The Stars Are Beautiful (1974)

    The Stars Are Beautiful

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    We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity. A dog joins the hens a...

    The Stars Are Beautiful
  • 1964
    Song 1

    Song 1 (1964)

    Song 1

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    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)....

    Song 1
  • 1961
    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular (1961)

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

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    Only at a crisis do I see both the scene as I've been trained to see it ( that is, with Renaissance perspective, three-dimensional logic–colors as we've been trained to call a color a color, as so forth) and patterns that move straight out from the i...

    Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
  • 1964
    Song 5

    Song 5 (1964)

    Song 5

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    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)....

    Song 5
  • 1959
    Cat's Cradle

    Cat's Cradle (1959)

    Cat's Cradle

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    Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. A man enters a room, a woman smiles. He sits, another man sit...

    Cat's Cradle
  • 1998
    Brakhage

    Brakhage (1998)

    Brakhage

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    BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travelers, and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators. While touching on s...

    Brakhage
  • 1984
    Tortured Dust

    Tortured Dust (1984)

    Tortured Dust

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    The culmination of a series of autobiographical films that Brakhage made about his family (collectively known as The Book of Family), Tortured Dust was shot as the filmmaker's children from his first marriage were beginning to leave the house, and ed...

    Tortured Dust
  • 1963
    Dog Star Man: Part I

    Dog Star Man: Part I (1963)

    Dog Star Man: Part I

    6.21963HD

    From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow. He carries an ax, and he's accompanied by a dog. His labors continue. There is no soundtrack. Images rush past - wate...

    Dog Star Man: Part I
  • 1964
    Dog Star Man: Part IV

    Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)

    Dog Star Man: Part IV

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    A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant is born. We see a lactating nipple. Images include a mountain peak, farm buildings, a tree stump, a fire, a crawling baby, and the sun. The man falls ...

    Dog Star Man: Part IV
  • 1959
    Wedlock House: An Intercourse

    Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959)

    Wedlock House: An Intercourse

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    We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home. It's night, she sees his reflection in the window, she closes the drapes. After sex, again in a ...

    Wedlock House: An Intercourse
  • 1978
    Thot-Fal'N

    Thot-Fal'N (1978)

    Thot-Fal'N

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    This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and then that feeling of falling away from conscious thought. The film can only be said to describe or be ...

    Thot-Fal'N
  • 1974
    Hymn to Her

    Hymn to Her (1974)

    Hymn to Her

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    "HER" to me is always Jane, in the first place, but also Hera: "goddess of women and marriage," naturally enough. Then, too, as it is a hymn of light, and as he/me feels the self that way, it sings of and to itself....

    Hymn to Her
  • 1964
    Dog Star Man: Part III

    Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)

    Dog Star Man: Part III

    6.21964HD

    Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, a man and a woman's, close up, nude - patches of skin, wisps of hair, glimpses of a face and genitalia; strips of celluloid with lines and squiggles s...

    Dog Star Man: Part III