Shirley Clarke Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

"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...

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

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

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

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...