Shirley Clarke

In August 1955, director Shirley Clarke and choreographer Anne Sokolow embarked on a dance film about mime. It evolved two years later into 'The Rose and the Players', inspired by Pablo Picasso's 'Family of Saltimbanques'. 'The Rose and the Players' was never completed. Sections of this work were turned into 'A Moment in Love' featuring Paul Sanasardo and Carmela Gutierrez. Their tests can be seen at the end.

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 frame. Based on the script found in Shirley Clarke's collection, this looks to be a complete version of Ms. Sokolow's choreography for Act One of the film. Plot subtitles are taken from Shirley Clarke's script. Pierrot and Pierrette's duet transformed into Shirley Clarke's 1957 dance film 'A Moment in Love'.

Shirley Clarke manipulated the colors of her short film 'Bullfight' to great effect. Much of her final version had a strong red tint. These are the original C and D rolls of the film that show the spectacular work of their photographer Peter Buckley.

In 1954, Shirley Clarke created 'In Paris Parks', a short film starring her ten-year-old daughter Wendy Clarke. In 2013, the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research loaned the outtakes of this film to Milestone. Much to everybody's surprise, one of the reels revealed that Clarke had shot another film during that trip to France that she never told anybody about and never finished. This is the unfinished film. No soundtrack existed for this film so one has been commissioned by Milestone.

'In Paris Parks' outtakes reveal a little more of Shirley Clarke's filmmaking process.

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 Paris Parks. Not known, is that in 1955, Clarke tried a second time to make a film about Decroux. This is the unfinished workprint.

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 that year--'Dance in the Sun' starring the dancer Daniel Nagrin.

An astonishing Holy Grail-like glimpse of choreographer/dancer Anna Sokolow's famed 'A Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution of Ragtime as Presented by Jelly Roll Morton' (1952), from Shirley Clarke's 'Home Movies #20'.

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

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

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 house full of vampires. Homage back to the camp tone of British directors of the 1970's such as Ken Russell, (The Lair Of The White Worm), Robert Fuest, (Dr Phibes Rises Again), and Joe McGrath, (The Magic Christian). Distributed by Troma in the U.S., it contains violence, nudity and exploding bagpipes.

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 Syracuse Museum of Art, in New York. On the same day an unusual group of John's and Yoko's friends, including Ringo, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krasner, and many others, gathered to celebrate John's birthday. This film is a visual and audio record of that event.

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

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

‘프리 재즈’를 통해 미국 뿐 아니라 세계적으로 큰 인기를 누린 재즈 뮤지션 오네트 콜먼(1930~2015)의 삶을 다룬 다큐멘터리. 셜리 클락은 인터뷰, 공연 기록 영상, 뮤직 비디오 등 다양한 자료를 한자리에 모아 오네트 콜먼이 걸어온 발자취를 다양한 관점에서 조망한다. 셜리 클락이 연출한 마지막 작품.

‘프리 재즈’를 통해 미국 뿐 아니라 세계적으로 큰 인기를 누린 재즈 뮤지션 오네트 콜먼(1930~2015)의 삶을 다룬 다큐멘터리. 셜리 클락은 인터뷰, 공연 기록 영상, 뮤직 비디오 등 다양한 자료를 한자리에 모아 오네트 콜먼이 걸어온 발자취를 다양한 관점에서 조망한다. 셜리 클락이 연출한 마지막 작품.

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

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

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

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 naturalistic non-verbal theater and dance techniques with photographs providing the environment.

A pair of performers wearing bodysuits dance and balance together in this short film for director Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time.

Left to viewer interpretation, this beautiful dance piece displays a spiritual or religious initiation. A short work, this film was released as part of Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time.

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, costuming and color play an integral role in this piece.

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 primary performer, but also as a canvas on which to paint projected images. Further enhanced by editing and effective use of shadows, the film is a transformative experience.

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

Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.

“1950년부터 영상 일기를 찍었어요. 언제나 볼렉스 카메라를 들고 다니며, 내가 만나게 되는 상황이나 친구, 뉴욕의 모습, 계절의 변화 등 즉각적인 현실에 반응하고자 했죠. 어떤 날에는 열 프레임, 어떤 날에는 10초, 또 어떤 날에는 10분 정도 촬영을 했습니다. 물론, 아무것도 찍지 않은 날도 있었어요. 일기를 쓸 때는 ‘회상’이라는 절차가 수반되는데, 보통 책상에 앉아서 그날 하루를 되돌아보며 일기를 써 내려가기 때문이죠. 한편 영상(카메라) 일기의 경우, 어떤 순간에 대한 즉각적인 반응을 포착할 수 있습니다. 특정 대상을 카메라에 제대로 담던 담지 못하는 것과 관계없이, 순간의 반응 자체를 카메라가 기록합니다. 어떤 상황에 다시 돌아가 촬영을 재개한다면, 그것은 재연된 영상이 되어버리죠. 이는 사건이나 감정이 수반될 수밖에 없습니다. 일어나는 일을 있는 그대로 포착하려면, 내가 사용하고 있는 도구(여기에서의 도구는 볼렉스 카메라를 말한다)에 대한 온전한 이해가 필수적입니다. 내가 반응을 보이는 현실뿐만 아니라 내가 반응함과 동시에 내 감정의 상태(와 모든 기억)까지 포착할 수 있어야 하기 때문이죠. 다시 말해, 카메라를 들고 촬영이 이루어지는 바로 그 장소에서 영상의 구조화(편집) 작업까지 끝낼 수 있어야 합니다. 월든에서 여러분이 만나는 모든 영상은 카메라에 담겨있는 영상과 동일합니다. 1964년부터 1968년까지 촬영한 영상을 순차적으로 연결한 것입니다. 사운드트랙의 경우, 목소리, 지하철 소리, 길거리 소음 등 촬영 당시 수집한 사운드에 쇼팽의 음악-난 로맨틱한 사람입니다-과 때때로 의미 있고 또 때때로 의미 없는 사운드를 섞어 제작하였습니다.”

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

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

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.

제이슨 홀리데이(1924~1988)는 흑인 동성애자라는 자신의 정체성을 숨기지 않은 채 나이트클럽 등에서 공연을 펼치며 인기와 논란을 동시에 얻은 인물이다. 셜리 클락은 자신의 집에서 제이슨 홀리데이와 긴 인터뷰를 진행하며 그가 어떤 인생을 살아왔는지 생생하게 기록한다. 또한 제이슨 역시 자신의 캐릭터가 하나의 특정한 이미지로 고정되는 것을 경계하며 대담하고 솔직한 이야기를 들려준다.

제이슨 홀리데이(1924~1988)는 흑인 동성애자라는 자신의 정체성을 숨기지 않은 채 나이트클럽 등에서 공연을 펼치며 인기와 논란을 동시에 얻은 인물이다. 셜리 클락은 자신의 집에서 제이슨 홀리데이와 긴 인터뷰를 진행하며 그가 어떤 인생을 살아왔는지 생생하게 기록한다. 또한 제이슨 역시 자신의 캐릭터가 하나의 특정한 이미지로 고정되는 것을 경계하며 대담하고 솔직한 이야기를 들려준다.

제이슨 홀리데이(1924~1988)는 흑인 동성애자라는 자신의 정체성을 숨기지 않은 채 나이트클럽 등에서 공연을 펼치며 인기와 논란을 동시에 얻은 인물이다. 셜리 클락은 자신의 집에서 제이슨 홀리데이와 긴 인터뷰를 진행하며 그가 어떤 인생을 살아왔는지 생생하게 기록한다. 또한 제이슨 역시 자신의 캐릭터가 하나의 특정한 이미지로 고정되는 것을 경계하며 대담하고 솔직한 이야기를 들려준다.

제이슨 홀리데이(1924~1988)는 흑인 동성애자라는 자신의 정체성을 숨기지 않은 채 나이트클럽 등에서 공연을 펼치며 인기와 논란을 동시에 얻은 인물이다. 셜리 클락은 자신의 집에서 제이슨 홀리데이와 긴 인터뷰를 진행하며 그가 어떤 인생을 살아왔는지 생생하게 기록한다. 또한 제이슨 역시 자신의 캐릭터가 하나의 특정한 이미지로 고정되는 것을 경계하며 대담하고 솔직한 이야기를 들려준다.

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival Week of the Angry Arts, the epic compilation film incorporated minute-long segments which were sent from many corners of the country, spliced together and projected. The original presentation of the works was more of an open forum with no curation or selection, and in 2000 Anthology Film Archives preserved a print featuring around 40 films from over 60 submissions.

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

"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 camera. It’s only love: therefore it can’t harm you". Joyce Wieland.

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. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike Kuchar, most observed in their homes or studios. Filmed in vibrant color, Galaxie pulses with life. It is a masterpiece of in-camera composition and editing, and stands as a vibrant response to Andy Warhol's contemporary Screen Tests.

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 return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.

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 return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.

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 return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.

“가지 않은 길”등으로 잘 알려진 로버트 프로스트(1874~1963)는 시인으로서는 드물게 퓰리처상을 수상한 미국의 대표적인 시인이다. 영화는 노년의 로버트 프로스트가 어떤 소박한 일상을 보내는지 보여주는 한편 그의 짧은 강의 현장을 기록한다. 그리고 케네디 대통령에게 의회명예훈장을 받는 모습까지 함께 보여준다. 1964년 오스카 최우수 다큐멘터리 수상.

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 Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.

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 Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.

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

Intended as a call to action, this UNICEF-sponsored film juxtaposes the fears experienced by children around the world as a means of awakening audiences to the struggles seen abroad.

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

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

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

Accompanied by ambient electronic music, this visual experiment presents New York with its industrial architecture as an unknown dystopian city. With everyday urban elements the author creates impressive abstract collages which evoke an extraterrestrial gloomy valley.

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

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

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

A collection of twenty short films, averaging 2-3 minutes, by various filmmakers depicting American life, intended to be shown in a continuous loop at the American Pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Some releases of the film include ten extra minutes of rough cuts.

A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.

A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.