Shirley Clarke Movies

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

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

An astonishing Holy Grail-like glimpse of choreographer/dancer Anna Sokolow's famed 'A Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution of Ragtime as...

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the...

A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker...

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...

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

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

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Twins Christopher and David gets into an untethered sailboat and inadvertently gets involved in a nearby sailboat race.

Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

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 collection of twenty short films, averaging 2-3 minutes, by various filmmakers depicting American life, intended to be shown in a continuous loop...

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...

Based on interviews with 15 women, including directors, producers and film actresses, a journey around the world is made, seeing the wars waged by...

Beatrice Seckler rehearses a dance, filmed by Shirley Clarke in 1952.