Shirley Clarke Movies

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

A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four...

A 1957 rehearsal film test for a dance film inspired by Pablo Picasso's 'Family of Saltimbanques'. Anna Sokolow can be seen on the lower left of the...

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

Left to viewer interpretation, this beautiful dance piece displays a spiritual or religious initiation. A short work, this film was released as part...

Short experimental film

In August 1955, director Shirley Clarke and choreographer Anne Sokolow embarked on a dance film about mime. It evolved two years later into 'The...

Four minutes of color footage featuring Carl Lee and a poodle named Max. A very cute home movie from the Connection blu-ray.

In 1953, Shirley Clarke went to make a film about French mime Ettiene Decroux. The legend goes that he had left town and instead, she created In...

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

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Interviewees sit in the Modnar Machine and reflect on...