Shirley Clarke Movies

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further...

A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to...

Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked,...

A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker...

A performance piece written by Sam Shepard, enacted by Joseph Chaikin and directed by Shirley Clarke, a dying man reflects on his life while...

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

Twins Christopher and David gets into an untethered sailboat and inadvertently gets involved in a nearby sailboat race.

In 1953, Shirley Clarke went to make a film about French mime Ettiene Decroux. The legend goes that he had left town and instead, she created In...

Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the...

A pair of performers wearing bodysuits dance and balance together in this short film for director Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic...

A highly edited work complimenting an exhibit on Persian art in the Los Angeles Museum of Art.

Sex star gives an explosive behind the scenes view of the people who make sexual fantasies come true on the silver screen. Sex Stars is the first...

A collection of twenty short films, averaging 2-3 minutes, by various filmmakers depicting American life, intended to be shown in a continuous loop...

A prelude to Tongues (1982) which languishes over love and its effect on people.

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.