Yvonne Rainer Movies

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

Privilege is an intelligently conceived, boldly anarchic, and wickedly insightful exposition on the culturally ingrained and socially divisive...

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

Reel 10 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

Yvonne Rainer combines a dance performance she choreographed for Mikhail Barryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project in 2000 with texts by Oscar...

First performed in 1966, Trio A consists of an approximately five-minute sequence of discrete movements that, with the exception of walking, are...

Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and...

Judson Memorial Church on the occasion of the People’s Flag Show, 1970. Film by Rudi Stern, John Reilly. Performers: David Gordon, Nancy Green,...

Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the...

Rainer's first film, Hand Film, was shot by fellow dancer William Davis when Rainer was confined to a hospital bed, recovering from major surgery and...

Adam Pendleton’s Just Back From Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer is the third in a series of video portraits, following My Education: A...

Two nudes, a man and a woman, interact with each other and a large balloon in a white living room. Performed by Steve Paxton and Becky Arnold....

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

In I Cannot Now Recall, a collection of Yvonne Rainer's dreams are presented, selected by the filmmaker from Rainer's journals. Through choice and...

"Carriage Discreteness" is a 1966 performance piece by Yvonne Rainer, presented as part of the "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" event.

A volleyball is rolled into the frame and comes to rest. Two legs in sneakers, seen from the knees down, enter the frame and stand beside it. Cut to...

The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a...

Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and...