Movies

  • 1957
    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

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    A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...

    Nymphlight
  • 1965
    A Legend for Fountains

    A Legend for Fountains

    A Legend for Fountains

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    A sombre day in the city. "A Legend for Fountains" is the 16-minute version, "A Fable for Fountains" the 6-minute version.

    A Legend for Fountains
  • 1957
    Angel

    Angel

    Angel

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    Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.

    Angel
  • 1937
    Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.

    Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.

    Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.

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    A sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the...

    Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
  • 1974
    Body - Earth

    Body - Earth

    Body - Earth

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    Body - Earth
  • 1991
    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

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    This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He...

    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
  • 1969
    Tarzam

    Tarzam

    Tarzam

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    "The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the art of painting. He meets his first human. His...

    Tarzam
  • 1955
    The Aviary

    The Aviary

    The Aviary

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    A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for...

    The Aviary
  • 1968
    Money

    Money

    Money

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    A silent screen-type comedy starring Edwin Denby as Hemlock Stinge, the unlovable billionaire.

    Money
  • 1940
    Pursuit of Happiness

    Pursuit of Happiness

    Pursuit of Happiness

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    Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images...

    Pursuit of Happiness
  • 1999
    Scattered Showers

    Scattered Showers

    Scattered Showers

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    Made in the final year of his life, Rudy Burckhardt’s Scattered Showers begins its journey in the city he so scrupulously documented in...

    Scattered Showers
  • 1969
    One Flight Up

    One Flight Up

    One Flight Up

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    ONE FLIGHT UP is both the name of this documentary portrait and the title of a piece by artist Alex Katz. The work-of-the-same-name figures...

    One Flight Up
  • 1938
    Haiti

    Haiti

    Haiti

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    A travelogue of Port-au-Prince, Haiti concentrating on the daily life and rhythm of tropical island life.

    Haiti
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1986
    In Bed

    In Bed

    In Bed

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    To a poem by Kenneth Koch with Chopin played by Gena Raps. "Rudy's lyrical montage opens and reflects the world the way a poem does. He consistently...

    In Bed
  • 1999
    On Aesthetics

    On Aesthetics

    On Aesthetics

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    Short film by Swiss-American film-maker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, featuring a poem by Kenneth Koch.

    On Aesthetics
  • 1983
    Indelible, Inedible

    Indelible, Inedible

    Indelible, Inedible

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    Images to accompany the lines of a poem by John Ashbery. "Rudy Burckhardt's film is a brilliant extension of my poem, perhaps the film I might have...

    Indelible, Inedible
  • 1955
    Joanne, Union Square

    Joanne, Union Square

    Joanne, Union Square

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    Footage shot for Cornell by Rudy Burckhardt in December 1955 of a woman buying chestnuts from a street vendor and watching people and birds in a city...

    Joanne, Union Square
  • 1974
    City Pasture

    City Pasture

    City Pasture

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    A snow storm – Disney World – self important New York – ox-pull in Maine – a special old man – strip tease – an...

    City Pasture
  • 1974
    Dwellings Winter

    Dwellings Winter

    Dwellings Winter

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    Since 1970 Simonds has created Dwelling places for an imaginary civilization of “Little People” who are migrating through the streets of...

    Dwellings Winter