Shirley Clarke Movies

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...

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

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....

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

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...

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

This short film displays the dynamic movement of people as they enter and exit parks in Paris.

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 visual protest of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

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...

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

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 couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.

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...

A Visual Diary is a look at a private moment in one's life. A narrative form without utilizing a story line. The collaboration incorporates...

A short, Filmstruck-produced documentary on the life of director Shirley Clarke.

Home Movies #20: Dance Tests dates from 1953 and shows Shirley Clarke working on her film technique before she shot her first "official" film later...

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

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...