Screenplay: Carolee Schneemann

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.

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...

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Plot Viet Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images, compiled over five years, from foreign magazines and newspapers. Schneemann uses the 8mm camera to “travel” within the...

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...

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Plot In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll reading the text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina....

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.

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Plot Art Is Reactionary is the 10-minute video recording of a performance by Carolee Schneemann dating from 1987. Carolee Schneemann shares the stage with her ideal double, an African American. On...

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...

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Plot A compilation of Schneemann’s anti-Vietnam War group performances, this work merges film projection, sound and slide systems, light beams, audience and performer action in a sensory collage linking the exposed...

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Plot This is a newly restored version of documentation of the 1967 group performance Snows, which was built out of Schneemann’s outrage and sorrows over the atrocities of the Vietnam War....

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...

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...

Direction Carolee Schneemann

Plot Infinity Kisses – The Movie completes Schneemann’s exploration of human and feline sensual communication. It incorporates extracts of the original 124 self-shot 35mm color slide photo sequence, Infinity Kisses, in...

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...