Shirley Clarke Movies

A 1957 rehearsal film test for a dance film inspired by Pablo Picasso's 'Family of Saltimbanques'. Anna Sokolow can be seen on the lower left of the...

A visual protest of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

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.

"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...

Beatrice Seckler rehearses a dance, filmed by Shirley Clarke in 1952.

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

In this short, magical film experiment, Shirley Clarke interprets the musical universe of jazz giant Ornette Coleman in best Afrofuturist tradition....

A Visual Diary is a look at a private moment in one's life. A narrative form without utilizing a story line. The collaboration incorporates...

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Interviewees sit in the Modnar Machine and reflect on...

This short film displays the dynamic movement of people as they enter and exit parks in Paris.

Accompanied by ambient electronic music, this visual experiment presents New York with its industrial architecture as an unknown dystopian city. With...

'In Paris Parks' outtakes reveal a little more of Shirley Clarke's filmmaking process.

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...

New York City's various bridges transform into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape (electro-acoustic version).

Spoof science fiction. An alien mother and her child are pursued across England by a bunch of incompetent government agents and take refuge in a...

On October 9, 1972, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse hosted an exhibition of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s work, designed by Fluxus artist...

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...

Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.