Carolee Schneemann Movies

  • 1993
    Four Recent Installations

    Four Recent Installations

    Four Recent Installations

    11993HD

    In all Schneemann's montages, films and performances, there is an insistent repetition of disparate motifs — within each work and from work to...

    Four Recent Installations
  • 1970
    Times For

    Times For

    Times For

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    A sexually frustrated man complies with the emotional and erotic wishes of four women, but afterwards he is left even lonelier than before.

    Times For
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1976
    Up To and Including Her Limits

    Up To and Including Her Limits

    Up To and Including Her Limits

    01976HD

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

    Up To and Including Her Limits
  • 1995
    Vulva's School

    Vulva's School

    Vulva's School

    01995HD

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

    Vulva's School
  • 1969
    Heads

    Heads

    Heads

    01969HD

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

    Heads
  • 2004
    Devour

    Devour

    Devour

    02004HD

    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...

    Devour
  • 2012
    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

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    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree, a performance-lecture by Carolee Schneemann, was first presented on December 15, 2011 as part of...

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree
  • 2015
    Masculinity/Femininity

    Masculinity/Femininity

    Masculinity/Femininity

    02015HD

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

    Masculinity/Femininity
  • 1957
    Loving

    Loving

    Loving

    01957HD

    In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows...

    Loving
  • 1967
    Grimace

    Grimace

    Grimace

    01967HD

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

    Grimace
  • 2007
    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    02007HD

    Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972. Unfortunately, the original...

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie
  • 2010
    Mysteries of the Pussies

    Mysteries of the Pussies

    Mysteries of the Pussies

    02010HD

    For this performative/lecture, Schneemann invited Teija Lammi, museum librarian at the Porin Taidemuseo in Pori, Finland, to be an improvisatory...

    Mysteries of the Pussies
  • 1967
    Red News

    Red News

    Red News

    01967HD

    RED NEWS (1962-67) considers the interplay between media, entertainment, and violence. "I also had Red News simultaneously, that magical little...

    Red News
  • 1972
    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    01972HD

    The Super 8mm film “Muñecos” (1972) — shot by the artist, Leopoldo Maler and Carolee Schneemann — combines recordings...

    Muñecos (Have a baby)
  • 1966
    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)

    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)

    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)

    01966HD

    Eight performers, suspended from ropes, move to a score of randomized encounter. Schneemann writes that this "kinetic theatre" work was "conceived as...

    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)
  • 1991
    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

    01991HD

    Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from...

    Ask the Goddess
  • 1963
    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    01963HD

    In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles,...

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast
  • 1988
    Catscan

    Catscan

    Catscan

    01988HD

    Catscan is a group performance within a chaotic density of projected images and office furniture, motivated by Egyptian funerary rituals of mourning,...

    Catscan
  • 1983
    Souvenir of Lebanon

    Souvenir of Lebanon

    Souvenir of Lebanon

    01983HD

    Writes Schneemann: "Souvenir of Lebanon follows a long video pan through destroyed Palestinian and Lebanese villages. In 1982-83, Israeli ceaseless...

    Souvenir of Lebanon