Shirley Clarke Movies

"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...

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...

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

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four...

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...

In August 1955, director Shirley Clarke and choreographer Anne Sokolow embarked on a dance film about mime. It evolved two years later into 'The...

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

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...

A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

An astonishing Holy Grail-like glimpse of choreographer/dancer Anna Sokolow's famed 'A Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution of Ragtime as...

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...

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

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