Screenplay: Yvonne Rainer

Direction Yvonne Rainer

Cast John Erdman · Valda Setterfield · Shirley Soffer · Fernando Torm

Plot A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, "Lives of Performers" examines the dilemma of a man who can't choose between two women and makes them both suffer. Originally part...

Direction Yvonne Rainer

Plot A volleyball is rolled into the frame and comes to rest. Two legs in sneakers, seen from the knees down, enter the frame and stand beside it. Cut to new...

Direction Yvonne Rainer

Cast Dempster Leech · Shirley Soffer · John Erdman · Renfreu Neff

Plot An experimental film in which the director focuses on the re-invention of the narrative in film from a feminist point-of-view.

Direction Yvonne Rainer

Cast Bert Barr · Frances Barth · James Barth · Blondell Cummings

Plot Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist concerned about the environment, has a sailor lover...

Direction Yvonne Rainer

Cast Jackie Raynal · Anne Friedberg · Larry Loonin

Plot Around a familiar theme--the breakup of a marriage--Rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womanizer, Jack Deller, the man “who almost knows too much about...

Direction Yvonne Rainer

Cast Joanna Merlin · Kathleen Chalfant · Catherine Kellner · Isa Thomas

Plot Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the pleasures and uncertainties of later-life emotional attachment...

Direction Yvonne Rainer

Cast Alice Spivak · Daniel Martin Berkey · Blaire Baron · Novella Nelson

Plot Done in a semi-documentary style, this is a discussion of women in menopause which is done in a trendy, 90s style that tends to be preachy, arty and more socially...