Carolee Schneemann Movies

This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.

Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work...

Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century,...

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent...

A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Art Is Reactionary is the 10-minute video recording of a performance by Carolee Schneemann dating from 1987. Carolee Schneemann shares the stage...

She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual...

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the...

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

Devour is a dual-channel version of the artist's multi-channel video projection installation of the same name. Schneemann notes that this work brings...

Viet Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images, compiled over five years, from foreign magazines and newspapers....

A performance in which Schneemann personifies an irrepressible vulva, which engages two animal hand puppets in a clamorous deconstruction of sexual...

Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and...

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the...

Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super...