Cast: Carolee Schneemann

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Carolee Schneemann. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Fuses (S)

1967 · Documentary · 22 min. · United States

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Cast Carolee Schneemann · James Tenney

Plot A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch.

7.5

99 votes

7.5

99 votes

Plumb Line (S)

1971 · Documentary · 15 min. · United States

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Cast Carolee Schneemann

Plot The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a streaming montage of disruptive permutations: 8 mm is printed...

6.4

42 votes

6.4

42 votes

Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor (S)

2018 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States

Direction Lynne Sachs

Cast Carolee Schneemann · Gunvor Nelson

Plot From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives.

5.8

32 votes

5.8

32 votes

No. 4 (S)

1966 · Documentary · 6 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Cox · Yoko Ono

Cast Susanna Campbell · Philip Corner · Anthony Cox · Bici Hendricks

Plot This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.

2.6

89 votes

2.6

89 votes

Kitch's Last Meal

1976 · Documentary · 55 min. · United States

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Cast Carolee Schneemann

Plot "Kitch's Last Meal" is a film project in which the artist documented the quotidian experiences of her life in rural New York with her partner, english filmmaker and artist Anthony...

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Water Light/Water Needle (S)

1966 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Cast Mark Gabor · Tony Holder · Meredith Monk · Yvette Nachmias

Plot A documentation of Carolee Schneeman’s performance. St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church, New York, NY. March 17–20, 1966. Havemeyer Estate, Mahwah, NJ May 29, 1966.

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ABC – We Print Anything – In the Cards

1977 · Documentary · 59 min. · United States

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Cast Carolee Schneemann · Anthony McCall

Plot Schneemann documented dreams, advice and conversations relating to her shifting relationships. She collated 315 numbered cards, containing both text and photographic imagery, which she photographed from her domestic life. Schneemann...

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Times For

1970 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Dwoskin

Cast Verity Bargate · Maurice Colbourne · Carmel Court · Sally Gidal

Plot Times For is a claustrophobic study of the latent sensuality of four women and a frustrated man. This film is a metaphor of the intensity of sexual experience, which Jonas...

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Loving (S)

1957 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Stan Brakhage

Cast James Tenney · Carolee Schneemann

Plot In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares – it’s really the nervous system’s ecstasy – in oranges and yellows and whites. –...

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The Whirled (S)

2007 · Documentary · 21 min. · United States

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Heads (S)

1969 · Documentary · 10 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Gidal

Cast Francis Bacon · Rufus Collins · Stephen Dwoskin · Marianne Faithfull

Plot Includes ‘portraits’ of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

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Up To and Including Her Limits

1976 · Documentary · 28 min. · United States

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Cast Carolee Schneemann

Plot Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock’s action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and drawing; her moving body becomes a measure...

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Body Collage (S)

1967 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Cast Carolee Schneemann

Plot Body Collage is a visceral “movement-event” from 1967, in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses, and then runs, leaps, falls into and rolls through shreds of...

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Meat Joy (S)

1964 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Cast Danielle Auffrey · Romain Denis · Claudia Hutchins · Annina Nosei

Plot “Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is...

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