Scattered Showers

Scattered Showers

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...

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Eastside Summer

Eastside Summer

Rudy Burckhardt's color portrait of Manhattan's East Side strolls along at an easy pace befitting blue skies and Thelonious Monk's piano score...

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On Aesthetics

On Aesthetics

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

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Rubble Dance

Rubble Dance

A film-dance, shot on 16mm film in Long Island City, Queens, NY.

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Ostensibly

Ostensibly

A collage film featuring dual narrations of Ashbery’s eponymous poem of the same name, with both Ashbery and Burckhardt appearing in in front of...

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Doldrums

Doldrums

"The New Jersey Turnpike and downtown New York in rain and shine. Trailer trucks, overpasses and industrial wastes become natural wonders. The...

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In Bed

In Bed

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...

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Julie

Julie

A snapshot from the filmmaker's own life in rural Maine.

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Indelible, Inedible

Indelible, Inedible

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...

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Default Averted

Default Averted

When New York was about to go bankrupt, all construction had stopped and an architect tried to become a wrecker. This is the story of the...

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Tarzam

Tarzam

"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...

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All Major Credit Cards

All Major Credit Cards

"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...

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Caterpillar

Caterpillar

Looking down at nature's small works in the woods of Maine, then straight up at the sky, then down again at the daylong journey of an inchworm.

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Joanne, Union Square

Joanne, Union Square

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...

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Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street

Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street

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...

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Under the Brooklyn Bridge

Under the Brooklyn Bridge

"…one cannot deny its documentary value or Burckhardt's eye for detail, his unpretentiousness. There are sequences — the children swimming under...

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Dwellings Winter

Dwellings Winter

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

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Slipperella

Slipperella

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...

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Saroche

Saroche

a travelogue of Peru.

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One Flight Up

One Flight Up

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...

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