Movies: Carolee Schneemann
- 1966
No. 4 (1966)
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This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace....
- 1997
Birth of a Nation (1997)
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....
- 2015
Masculinity/Femininity (2015)
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Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super 8, the project merges academic and creative critique -- a document of gender de-construction rather t...
- 2020
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2020)
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A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture....
- 2011
Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)
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Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Mr. M...
- 2012
Emma's Dilemma (2012)
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Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images and essences of such downtown luminaries as Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Carolee Schneemann, Hills’s cinemat...
- 1987
Art Is Reactionary (1987)
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Art Is Reactionary is the 10-minute video recording of a performance by Carolee Schneemann dating from 1987. Carolee Schneemann shares the stage with her ideal double, an African American. On a stage, the two women start their story using the herald...
- 1967
Fuses (1967)
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A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch....
- 1959
Cat's Cradle (1959)
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Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. A man enters a room, a woman smiles. He sits, another man sit...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
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Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years....
- 1966
Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ) (1966)
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Schneemann's classic 1966 aerial "Kinetic Theatre" work was first staged at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, with eight performers moving to a score of randomized encounter on layers of rigged ropes and pulleys. One of two video documents of this ear...
- 2010
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution (2010)
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Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed th...
- 2004
Devour (2004)
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Devour is a dual-channel version of the artist's multi-channel video projection installation of the same name. Schneemann notes that this work brings together "a range of images which contrast evanescent, fragile elements with violent, concussive, sp...
- 2009
Infinity Kisses - The Movie (2009)
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Infinity Kisses - The Movie completes Schneemann's exploration of human and feline sensual communication. It incorporates extracts of the original 124 self-shot 35mm color slide photo sequence, Infinity Kisses, in which the expressive self-determinat...
- 1998
Women of Vision (1998)
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Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video. They range in age from 65 to 25....
- 1983
Fresh Blood (1983)
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Vulvic puns, jokes and ruminations on the meanings of menstrual blood activate a range of taboos surrounding cultural notions of the feminine as a metaphoric battle ground of the body and of language itself. Schneemann, naked and in red pajamas, merg...
- 1976
Up To and Including Her Limits (1976)
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Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and drawing; her moving body becomes a measure of concentration, the sustained and variable movements of he...
- 1995
Vulva's School (1995)
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A performance in which Schneemann personifies an irrepressible vulva, which engages two animal hand puppets in a clamorous deconstruction of sexual bias in French semiotics, Marxism, patriarchal religions and physical taboos....
- 2007
Americana I Ching Apple Pie (2007)
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Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972. Unfortunately, the original footage disappeared with the man doing the documentation who may have been working for the CIA. The next...
- 1970
Times For (1970)
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A sexually frustrated man complies with the emotional and erotic wishes of four women, but afterwards he is left even lonelier than before....