Carolee Schneemann Movies
- 1993
Four Recent Installations
Four Recent Installations11993HD
In all Schneemann's montages, films and performances, there is an insistent repetition of disparate motifs — within each work and from work to...
- 1970
Times For
Times For71970HD
A sexually frustrated man complies with the emotional and erotic wishes of four women, but afterwards he is left even lonelier than before.
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1976
Up To and Including Her Limits
Up To and Including Her Limits01976HD
Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and...
- 1995
Vulva's School
Vulva's School01995HD
A performance in which Schneemann personifies an irrepressible vulva, which engages two animal hand puppets in a clamorous deconstruction of sexual...
- 1969
Heads
Heads01969HD
Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
- 2004
Devour
Devour02004HD
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...
- 2012
Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree
Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree02012HD
Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree, a performance-lecture by Carolee Schneemann, was first presented on December 15, 2011 as part of...
- 2015
Masculinity/Femininity
Masculinity/Femininity02015HD
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super...
- 1957
Loving
Loving01957HD
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...
- 1967
Grimace
Grimace01967HD
Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the...
- 2007
Americana I Ching Apple Pie
Americana I Ching Apple Pie02007HD
Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972. Unfortunately, the original...
- 2010
Mysteries of the Pussies
Mysteries of the Pussies02010HD
For this performative/lecture, Schneemann invited Teija Lammi, museum librarian at the Porin Taidemuseo in Pori, Finland, to be an improvisatory...
- 1967
Red News
Red News01967HD
RED NEWS (1962-67) considers the interplay between media, entertainment, and violence. "I also had Red News simultaneously, that magical little...
- 1972
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...
- 1966
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...
- 1991
Ask the Goddess
Ask the Goddess01991HD
Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from...
- 1963
Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast
Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast01963HD
In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles,...
- 1988
Catscan
Catscan01988HD
Catscan is a group performance within a chaotic density of projected images and office furniture, motivated by Egyptian funerary rituals of mourning,...
- 1983
Souvenir of Lebanon
Souvenir of Lebanon01983HD
Writes Schneemann: "Souvenir of Lebanon follows a long video pan through destroyed Palestinian and Lebanese villages. In 1982-83, Israeli ceaseless...