Shirley Clarke Movies

Morris at Ornette's art show opening.

Four minutes of color footage featuring Carl Lee and a poodle named Max. A very cute home movie from the Connection blu-ray.

Jonas Mekas visit. Harry comes by before Ricky visit. 1. 12 p.m. April 15th -- Jonas dares to come by but won't talk. I tape him not with set up --...

Ricky comes to visit sees video for the 1st time. Day sunlight excellent.

April 19 nite of Ricky visit but not of Ricky. 1. Jose Soltero & his assistant Alicia from Argentina. I do teaching, they tape. 2. Harry arrives...

Last Ricky tape as I try to pre-answer questions for MOMA show. Then we all tape (bogart) meaning we hand camera around. Ricky et. al. watch the...

1. Carl Lee on the Joe Franklin Show 2. Lions & Vultures in Africa.

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

Makeup - Magic two. Fri May 13 1971. Original S&W [Shirley & Wendy] - then Nancy.

1. Viva's first day out when baby is two weeks old - we get arrested. 2. Show "video" process in my living room to French critics who want to...

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

Yoko & John Party hold. Recycled with Paul Ryan's video tape. This is interesting beacuse of your showing Paul Ryan's tape. 1st part is home movie...

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

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four...

Home Movies #20: Dance Tests dates from 1953 and shows Shirley Clarke working on her film technique before she shot her first "official" film later...

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the...

Left to viewer interpretation, this beautiful dance piece displays a spiritual or religious initiation. A short work, this film was released as part...