Nymphlight

Nymphlight

A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant...

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Body - Earth

Body - Earth

Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.

Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.

A sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the...

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Angel

Angel

Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.

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For Life, Against the War

For Life, Against the War

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

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Children

Children

Slightly different version of Cornell's Mulberry Street. Scenes of Mulberry Street on New York City's Lower East Side, as seen from the point of...

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The Aviary

The Aviary

A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for...

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The Apple

The Apple

Rudy Burckhardt’s breezy stop-motion animation follows after a poem by his New York School compatriot Kenneth Koch.

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Square Times

Square Times

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.

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Money

Money

A silent screen-type comedy starring Edwin Denby as Hemlock Stinge, the unlovable billionaire.

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Trinidad

Trinidad

Rudy Burckhardt shot plenty of film while he was stationed in Trinidad with the Signal Corps in the early 1940s. This short film compiles some of...

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Inside Dope

Inside Dope

"A pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. Very funny and slightly sinister, like Red...

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Lurk

Lurk

“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it. The...

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Haiti

Haiti

A travelogue of Port-au-Prince, Haiti concentrating on the daily life and rhythm of tropical island life.

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Mounting Tension

Mounting Tension

Larry is a madly energetic, oversexed artist. Jane, a combination of palm reader and psychoanalyst, is trying to straighten him out. John is a...

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City Pasture

City Pasture

A snow storm – Disney World – self important New York – ox-pull in Maine – a special old man – strip tease – an ant in the woods –wild 14th street...

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A Legend for Fountains

A Legend for Fountains

A sombre day in the city. "A Legend for Fountains" is the 16-minute version, "A Fable for Fountains" the 6-minute version.

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Cerveza Bud

Cerveza Bud

"This filmic slice of life coalesces into an ethnographic view of a possible future: the city as a constantly bubbling, delirious playground where...

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Pursuit of Happiness

Pursuit of Happiness

Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images...

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Miracle on the BMT

Miracle on the BMT

a swift tour of subways and streets while it concentrates on a threadbare romantic comedy about a lonely boy and a girl, played by Red and Mimi Grooms

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