Shirley Clarke Movies

The acclaimed poet is examined in this film completed just prior to his death at age 88, with his speaking engagements at Amherst and Sarah Lawrence...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.

Choreographer Daniel Nagrin performs in a studio and in the sun.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

In August 1955, director Shirley Clarke and choreographer Anne Sokolow embarked on a dance film about mime. It evolved two years later into 'The...

Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.