The Wold Shadow is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, produced in 1972.

"[1] The Wold Shadow was produced by placing glass on an easel between his camera and the forest.

Between each individual frame, Brakhage painted on the glass, before repeating this process.

[1] Brakhage credits the film with reigniting his interest in painting,[3] and described his choice of title as follows: "Wold" because the word refers to "forests" which poets later made "plains" and because the work also contains the rustic sense "to kill" - this then my laboriously painted vision of the god of the forest.

"[1] P. Adams Sitney considers The Wold Shadow a continuation of themes expressed in the poetry of Ezra Pound.