This early work presents a lyrical vision of the intersecting lives of two couples and the mediating force of a feline presence.

Originally painted on IMAX-gauge film, this small work attempts (according to its maker) "to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when closed in meditation on sorrow."

Another of Brakhage’s works of "moving visual thinking," Rage Net harks back to the vibrant pioneering experiments of European animators Oskar Fischinger and Viking Eggeling.

Perhaps the best known of Brakhage’s films, Window Water Baby Moving captures the birth of Jane and Stan Brakhage’s first child in a home-delivery that paralleled the film’s own resolutely independent, homemade form.

This cameraless collage work is composed entirely of montane-zone vegetation applied to the filmstrip. It presents a double homage: to Bosch’s celebrated canvas and to the flower paintings of Emil Nolde.

One of Brakhage’s most stunning landscape films, Creation is set in a far north wilderness during the transition between the seasons and the surge of life being renewed.

The first in a series of untitled short works, this film attempts to visualize Jane Brakhage’s memories through a haunting series of family photographs.

A hymn of light, this lyric portrait focuses on "Her" (a reference to both Jane Brakhage and the goddess Hera) and in the process sings "of and to itself."

Brakhage’s version of a structural film, The Riddle of Lumen is constructed as a series of uncanny object lessons on the nature of light.

This unique work within Brakhage’s oeuvre features the artist in confrontation with the camera eye as he presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of the medium.

Originally created as a special-effect element for a stage production, this hand-painted film presents one of Brakhage’s most vivid "closed-eye envisionments"—here, of "a fire in the mind."

This vibrant hand-painted film attempted to create a mode of optic feedback generated by the filmmaker’s response to sound.

This beautiful film marks a rare use of both music and language to explore aspects of the melancholic and of what Brakhage termed the "senses-of-love as children know."