The Way to Shadow Garden is a 1955 American short experimental film directed by Stan Brakhage with no dialogue heard.
[1] Brakhage moved from Denver to San Francisco in late 1953, living with poet Robert Duncan and artist Jess Collins.
He took odd jobs to finance his filmmaking practice, shooting The Boy and the Sea and The Extraordinary Child.
[4][5] Brakhage ended up spending some time studying under Varèse and learning about "the relationship between music and film".
[9] It was released on DVD as part of Kino International's Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928–1954 box set, along with Brakhage's early films Interim, Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection, and The Extraordinary Child.