Shirley Clarke Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

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

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....

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...

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

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

"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...

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

Intended as a call to action, this UNICEF-sponsored film juxtaposes the fears experienced by children around the world as a means of awakening...

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...

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...

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