Movies: Rudy Burckhardt
- 1991
Rubble Dance (1991)
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A film-dance, shot on 16mm film in Long Island City, Queens, NY....
- 1983
Untitled (1983)
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Untitled takes an intrigued look around and reports on how things appeared then and what everyone was up to. Lines from a poem by John Ashbery cross the screen at times and our grasp of his elusive language is strengthened by the accompanying images....
- 1999
Scattered Showers (1999)
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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 photographs and film for the greater part of his career....
- 1972
Doldrums (1972)
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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 of trucks is often gay but sometimes ominous. After a thunderstorm, the pike gives way to charming a...
- 1986
Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street (1986)
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Here this display of New York textures and cross-sections is juxtaposed with the creation of a dance work, Jig Jag, by choreographer-dancer Douglas Dunn and his remarkable company. The natural humor and classically tender abruptness of their gestures...
- 1969
Six Days (1969)
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- 1974
Landscape Bodydwelling (1974)
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Burckhardt collaborates with artist Simonds to produce a portrait of the artist as a foundation....
- 1991
Night Fantasies (1991)
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Elliott Carter’s composition of the same title inspired Rudy Burckhardt, in collaboration with Yvonne Jacquette, to photograph this collage-style film. Mostly shot in New York City, but also in Hong Kong and Searsmont, Maine....
- 1967
The Apple (1967)
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Rudy Burckhardt’s breezy stop-motion animation follows after a poem by his New York School compatriot Kenneth Koch....
- 1992
Wayward Glimpses (1992)
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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 seem to like it/it is dark like a cave, with pink light..." We visit briefly New York, Provincetown, Ma...
- 1962
Shoot the Moon (1962)
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Artist Red Grooms and photographer Rudy Burckhardt’s playful homage to George Melies’ “Trip To The Moon” features exaggerated set designs, costumes and larger than life characters....
- 1985
The Nude Pond (1985)
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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 by Rudy Burckhardt has been perfecting for the past fifteen years. Democratic in its celebration of ...
- 1980
Sonatina and Fugue (1980)
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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. Images and music, "in" the same time-space, sometimes join and affect each other, then pursue their o...
- 1978
Alex Katz Painting (1978)
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In this film we see Katz drawing and painting. We see his paint table (he drinks Medaglia d'Oro and eats Skippy peanut butter in the country), his studio, the green view out the door. We see his models. We see him laugh as he works. We see a fly land...
- 1977
Good Evening Everybody (1977)
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"Good Evening Everybody" does not construct a world, but projects a personality. Burckhardt's camera observes life in a way characteristic of someone sensitive to irony, detail, diversity, humor, incongruity and (even) beauty, expressive of a cultiva...
- 1975
The Bottle of the Bulge (1975)
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"A funny and gorgeous little animated story of the war between coke and pepsi – the bottles come alive and form armies. The battle scenes are spectacular." Ron Padgett, Tap Journal...
- 1970
Made in Maine (1970)
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"A few acres in Maine. Closeup looks at a small lake in the woods, wild flowers, clouds, mosses, ants and mushrooms. The visual richness is fantastic, the objective eye is absorbing. Often cut by glimpses, the second time you see the film you see twi...
- 1954
The Automotive Story (1954)
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a quiet, humorous mockumentary on cars, with Freilicher narrating Kenneth Koch’s text and Frank O’Hara as the pianist....
- 1940
The Uncle's Return (1940)
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Short film by Rudy Burckhardt....
- 1961
Millions in Business as Usual (1961)
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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 barely avoiding collision. For the long, slow second movement we see quiet, stately buildings, their colu...