Shirley Clarke Movies

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

Spoof science fiction. An alien mother and her child are pursued across England by a bunch of incompetent government agents and take refuge in a...

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

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...

A highly edited work complimenting an exhibit on Persian art in the Los Angeles Museum of Art.

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

A performance piece written by Sam Shepard, enacted by Joseph Chaikin and directed by Shirley Clarke, a dying man reflects on his life while...

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

New York City's various bridges transform into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape (electro-acoustic version).

On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the...

Choreographer Daniel Nagrin performs in a studio and in the sun.

A prelude to Tongues (1982) which languishes over love and its effect on people.