Rudy Burckhardt Movies
- 1991
Night Fantasies
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Elliott Carter’s composition of the same title inspired Rudy Burckhardt, in collaboration with Yvonne Jacquette, to photograph this...
- 1940
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...
- 1985
The Nude Pond
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Poems by John Ashbery; with performances by Douglas Dunn and Susan Blankenson, Yoshiko Chuma. "A grand synthesis of the poetic free association films...
- 1966
Daisy
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"a film that looks forward to the many collage films Burckhardt has made in the last two decades. Shot in Maine in black and white, it demonstrates...
- 1981
Cerveza Bud
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"This filmic slice of life coalesces into an ethnographic view of a possible future: the city as a constantly bubbling, delirious playground where...
- 1972
Doldrums
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"The New Jersey Turnpike and downtown New York in rain and shine. Trailer trucks, overpasses and industrial wastes become natural wonders. The stream...
- 1980
Sonatina and Fugue
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Images of city and landscape moving with a romantic piano sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), then classic keyboard figures by Johann S. Bach....
- 1974
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...
- 1972
Slipperella
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A fairy tale about a pair of moccasins that take off on their own, through woods and fields into the town of Belfast, Maine. They fall in love, drink...
- 1989
Ostensibly
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A collage film featuring dual narrations of Ashbery’s eponymous poem of the same name, with both Ashbery and Burckhardt appearing in in front...
- 1954
The Automotive Story
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a quiet, humorous mockumentary on cars, with Freilicher narrating Kenneth Koch’s text and Frank O’Hara as the pianist.
- 1991
Rubble Dance
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A film-dance, shot on 16mm film in Long Island City, Queens, NY.
- 1992
Wayward Glimpses
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With music by Elliott Carter adding drama and richness, a surreal dance by Dana Reitz and Alice Notley reading her poem "I work in a whorehouse, I...
- 1967
Square Times
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A Saturday night on 42nd Street, from dusk to dawn: the glamour, the garbage, the hot dogs, the movies, the sex, and the violence in the air.
- 1975
Saroche
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a travelogue of Peru.
- 1956
What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street
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Short film with sound by Rudy Burckhardt, assembled from the footage shot by Joseph Cornell for his own silent "Mulberry Street."
- 1961
Millions in Business as Usual
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A piano sonata by Josef Haydn and New York City. The first, allegro movement is choreographed by midtown crowds, crossing every which way, often...
- 1950
Mounting Tension
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Larry is a madly energetic, oversexed artist. Jane, a combination of palm reader and psychoanalyst, is trying to straighten him out. John is a...
- 1982
All Major Credit Cards
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"R. B.'s new film is a magic dream, airy and clear. Everything you see is a fact, firm and distinct at the moment you are seeing it, a fact of daily...
- 1999
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...