Night Fantasies

Night Fantasies

Elliott Carter’s composition of the same title inspired Rudy Burckhardt, in collaboration with Yvonne Jacquette, to photograph this collage-style...

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Untitled

Untitled

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...

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Summer

Summer

"A few acres of Maine, a small lake in the woods, wild flowers, clouds, mosses, and mushrooms after the rain. The visual richness is fantastic, the...

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Zipper

Zipper

"A diary or collage film, ranging from snow in the Catskills, with stop-overs in Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco, to Easter in New York...

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Seraphina's Garden

Seraphina's Garden

Joseph Cornell film with input from Rudolph Burckhardt. Also the title to one of Cornell's collages.

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Wayward Glimpses

Wayward Glimpses

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...

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Shoot the Moon

Shoot the Moon

Artist Red Grooms and photographer Rudy Burckhardt’s playful homage to George Melies’ “Trip To The Moon” features exaggerated set designs, costumes...

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Landscape Bodydwelling

Landscape Bodydwelling

Burckhardt collaborates with artist Simonds to produce a portrait of the artist as a foundation.

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Six Days

Six Days

The Nude Pond

The Nude Pond

Poems by John Ashbery; with performances by Douglas Dunn and Susan Blankenson, Yoshiko Chuma. "A grand synthesis of the poetic free association...

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Sonatina and Fugue

Sonatina and Fugue

Images of city and landscape moving with a romantic piano sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), then classic keyboard figures by Johann S. Bach...

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Alex Katz Painting

Alex Katz Painting

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...

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Good Evening Everybody

Good Evening Everybody

"Good Evening Everybody" does not construct a world, but projects a personality. Burckhardt's camera observes life in a way characteristic of...

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The Bottle of the Bulge

The Bottle of the Bulge

"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...

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Made in Maine

Made in Maine

"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...

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Daisy

Daisy

"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...

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The Automotive Story

The Automotive Story

a quiet, humorous mockumentary on cars, with Freilicher narrating Kenneth Koch’s text and Frank O’Hara as the pianist.

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The Uncle's Return

The Uncle's Return

Short film by Rudy Burckhardt.

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Millions in Business as Usual

Millions in Business as Usual

A piano sonata by Josef Haydn and New York City. The first, allegro movement is choreographed by midtown crowds, crossing every which way, often...

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What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street

What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street

Short film with sound by Rudy Burckhardt, assembled from the footage shot by Joseph Cornell for his own silent "Mulberry Street."

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