Rudy Burckhardt Movies
- 1950
Mounting Tension
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Larry is a madly energetic, oversexed artist. Jane, a combination of palm reader and psychoanalyst, is trying to straighten him out. John is a...
- 1986
Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street
Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street01986HD
Here this display of New York textures and cross-sections is juxtaposed with the creation of a dance work, Jig Jag, by choreographer-dancer Douglas...
- 1967
Square Times
Square Times01967HD
A Saturday night on 42nd Street, from dusk to dawn: the glamour, the garbage, the hot dogs, the movies, the sex, and the violence in the air.
- 1969
One Flight Up
One Flight Up01969HD
ONE FLIGHT UP is both the name of this documentary portrait and the title of a piece by artist Alex Katz. The work-of-the-same-name figures...
- 1972
Slipperella
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A fairy tale about a pair of moccasins that take off on their own, through woods and fields into the town of Belfast, Maine. They fall in love, drink...
- 1973
Caterpillar
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Looking down at nature's small works in the woods of Maine, then straight up at the sky, then down again at the daylong journey of an inchworm.
- 1975
Default Averted
Default Averted01975HD
When New York was about to go bankrupt, all construction had stopped and an architect tried to become a wrecker. This is the story of the demolition...
- 1991
Night Fantasies
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Elliott Carter’s composition of the same title inspired Rudy Burckhardt, in collaboration with Yvonne Jacquette, to photograph this...
- 1958
Seraphina's Garden
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Joseph Cornell film with input from Rudolph Burckhardt. Also the title to one of Cornell's collages.
- 1992
Wayward Glimpses
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With music by Elliott Carter adding drama and richness, a surreal dance by Dana Reitz and Alice Notley reading her poem "I work in a whorehouse, I...
- 1962
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Moon01962HD
Artist Red Grooms and photographer Rudy Burckhardt’s playful homage to George Melies’ “Trip To The Moon” features exaggerated...
- 1974
Landscape Bodydwelling
Landscape Bodydwelling01974HD
Burckhardt collaborates with artist Simonds to produce a portrait of the artist as a foundation.
- 1985
The Nude Pond
The Nude Pond01985HD
Poems by John Ashbery; with performances by Douglas Dunn and Susan Blankenson, Yoshiko Chuma. "A grand synthesis of the poetic free association films...
- 1980
Sonatina and Fugue
Sonatina and Fugue01980HD
Images of city and landscape moving with a romantic piano sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), then classic keyboard figures by Johann S. Bach....
- 1978
Alex Katz Painting
Alex Katz Painting01978HD
In this film we see Katz drawing and painting. We see his paint table (he drinks Medaglia d'Oro and eats Skippy peanut butter in the country), his...
- 1977
Good Evening Everybody
Good Evening Everybody01977HD
"Good Evening Everybody" does not construct a world, but projects a personality. Burckhardt's camera observes life in a way characteristic of someone...
- 1975
The Bottle of the Bulge
The Bottle of the Bulge01975HD
"A funny and gorgeous little animated story of the war between coke and pepsi – the bottles come alive and form armies. The battle scenes are...
- 1970
Made in Maine
Made in Maine01970HD
"A few acres in Maine. Closeup looks at a small lake in the woods, wild flowers, clouds, mosses, ants and mushrooms. The visual richness is...
- 1954
The Automotive Story
The Automotive Story01954HD
a quiet, humorous mockumentary on cars, with Freilicher narrating Kenneth Koch’s text and Frank O’Hara as the pianist.
- 1940
The Uncle's Return
The Uncle's Return01940HD
Short film by Rudy Burckhardt.