Faust Collection

Watch Faust Collection in release order: Faustfilm: An Opera (1987), Faust's Other: An Idyll (1988), Faust 3: Candida Albacore (1988) and Faust IV (1989).

Four parts by Stan Brakhage

1. 1

   Faustfilm: An Opera 1987

   ★ 7/10

   This is the realization of a 30 year old dream, a wish of the young filmmaker to film a modern Faust which finally came to a fulfillment as unpredictable and as absolute as, say, three decades of living experience…

2. 2

   Faust's Other: An Idyll 1988

   ★ 6.8/10

   “Faust Part 2” reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from the Greek idein, "to see"); also, a journey of the id. A sense of story is inferred through the complex interweaving of human gesture…

3. 3

   Faust 3: Candida Albacore 1988

   ★ 6.5/10

   Just as the word Idyll of Faust's Part 2 is rooted in the Greek idein/to see, so is "candida" in candidatus, as used in the white robed army of martyrs' of the Te Deum, as well as Albicare/to be white or Albicore out…

4. 4

   Faust IV 1989

   ★ 10/10

   Music by Rick Corrigan. This is the imaged thought process of young Faust escaping the unbearable pictures of his broken romantic idyll, mentally fleeing the particulars of his dramatized "love," Faust's mind ranging…