Direction: Shirley Clarke

Direction Shirley Clarke

Plot Variations around the images and the concept of Bridges-Go-Round.

Direction Shirley Clarke

Cast Warren Finnerty · Jerome Raphael · Garry Goodrow · Jim Anderson

Direction Shirley Clarke

Cast Jason Holliday

Direction Shirley Clarke

Plot Essential, integral experimental work from the late 1950s is an incredible dance of montage and super-imposition starring none other than New York City's various bridges, transforming them into an urban...

Direction Shirley Clarke

Cast Hampton Clanton · Carl Lee · Yolanda Rodríguez · Clarence Williams III

Plot Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair...

Direction Maurice Amor · Karl Bissenger · Tom Bissenger · Abbe Borov

Plot A political activism compilation film made by splicing together a series of clips centered around the Vietnam War by a number of different filmmakers.

Direction Shirley Clarke

Cast Carmela Gutierrez · Paul Sanasardo

Plot Clarke moves away from the strictly depictive perspective maintained in Dance in The sun and towards an expressive and interpretive use of the camera in A Moment in Love. As...

Direction Shirley Clarke

Direction Shirley Clarke · Wheaton Galentine · Richard Leacock · D.A. Pennebaker

Plot Consists of a series of short films commissioned for the American Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, some credited solely to Clarke, some to famed documentarian D.A. Pennebaker with...

Direction Shirley Clarke

Cast Daniel Nagrin

Plot Dance In the Sun, Shirley Clarke’s first film, is perhaps closest in form to her previous medium of expression. It already displays themes which were to be elaborated on in...

Direction Shirley Clarke

Direction Shirley Clarke

Plot Characterized by Shirley Clarke as “A musical comedy about the building of a skyscraper.”

Direction Shirley Clarke

Plot An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, costuming and color play...

Direction Shirley Clarke

Plot The film focuses on the struggles and triumphs of Ornette Coleman’s life, as well as on his extraordinary intelligence that spawned his creativity and ensured his success. Clarke’s footage, which...

Direction Shirley Clarke

Cast Blondell Cummings

Plot 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 naturalistic non-verbal theater and dance techniques...

Direction Shirley Clarke

Plot In Paris in Parks, what is choreographed is the mundane and everyday activity in a park in Paris. While the film starts with the populated park focusing on ordinary events,...

Direction Shirley Clarke

Cast Robert Frost

Plot 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 Colleges intercut with studies...

Direction Shirley Clarke

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

Direction Shirley Clarke

Plot UNICEF-sponsored film decrying child malnourishment

Direction Shirley Clarke

Plot A rapidly edited video study of ancient Persian tapestries.