Jane Wodening
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Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Biography: Jane Wodening (born Mary Jane Collom, and formerly known as Jane Brakhage) is an American writer and the first wife of filmmaker Stan Brakhage. The birth of their first child is the subject of the 1959 experimental short film Window Water Baby Moving. Wodening married Stan Brakhage in 1957 and is credited with creating scrapbooks for the Brakhage family during what is recognized as the filmmaker's most significant period of creation from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s. The couple separated in 1987. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Wodening, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the internat...
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Window Water Baby Moving
On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her...
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Cat's Cradle
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in...
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Hymn to Her
"HER" to me is always Jane, in the first place, but also Hera: "goddess of women and marriage," natu...
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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde...
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Jane
Someone said to me, of this film, that it was really about light; but Jane (who takes it as a portra...
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Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
Only at a crisis do I see both the scene as I've been trained to see it ( that is, with Renaissance ...
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Song 1
SONG 1: Portrait of a lady (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experime...
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Song 5
SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimen...
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The Stars Are Beautiful
We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation....
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Thot-Fal'N
This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols)...
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Wedlock House: An Intercourse
We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white imag...
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Brakhage
BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his fil...
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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...
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Dog Star Man: Part I
From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing u...
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Dog Star Man: Part III
Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, ...
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Prelude: Dog Star Man
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A blac...
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Dog Star Man: Part IV
A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant ...
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The Art of Vision
A deconstruction of Dog Star Man that takes the four rolls and shows them first combined, then each ...
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Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale
This, the third of the Sexual Meditation Series, might also be seen as a triangular portrait of Juli...
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Tortured Dust
The culmination of a series of autobiographical films that Brakhage made about his family (collectiv...
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Jane Brakhage
"I picked up Stan and Jane Brakhage at the airport and drove them to San Francisco State College whe...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s Ne...
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Dog Star Man
Experimental film following a cycle of seasons as well as the stretch of a single day as a man and h...
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Songs
a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage...
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