Shirley Clarke Filmes

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

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...

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...

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

This video journal, directed by Shirley Clarke, captures a party hosted by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with guests including Andy Warhol and Arthur C....

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

In 1954, Shirley Clarke created 'In Paris Parks', a short film starring her ten-year-old daughter Wendy Clarke. In 2013, the Wisconsin Center for...