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.

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...

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...

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

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

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

Eight drug addicts are waiting for their connection in a New York apartment while a two-man documentary team films the proceedings. Things go out of...

The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

Sex star gives an explosive behind the scenes view of the people who make sexual fantasies come true on the silver screen. Sex Stars is the first...

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

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...

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...

In 1953, Shirley Clarke went to make a film about French mime Ettiene Decroux. The legend goes that he had left town and instead, she created In...

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

On October 9, 1972, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse hosted an exhibition of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s work, designed by Fluxus artist...

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

"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...

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

New York City’s bridges dissolve into shifting abstractions through montage, superimposition, and color. Set to an electronic score by Louis...

A short documentary in which twins Christopher and David describe how an unplanned sailing trip led them into the midst of a boat race. Told largely...