Shirley Clarke Movies

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

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...

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

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,...

"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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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....

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

An astonishing Holy Grail-like glimpse of choreographer/dancer Anna Sokolow's famed 'A Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution of Ragtime as...

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

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

Based on interviews with 15 women, including directors, producers and film actresses, a journey around the world is made, seeing the wars waged by...