Shirley Clarke Filmes

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

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...

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

Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked,...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...