Rudy Burckhardt Movies
- 1957
Nymphlight
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A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...
- 1965
A Legend for Fountains
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A sombre day in the city. "A Legend for Fountains" is the 16-minute version, "A Fable for Fountains" the 6-minute version.
- 1957
Angel
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Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.
- 1955
The Aviary
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A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for...
- 1967
For Life, Against the War
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First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
- 1937
Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.5.51937HD
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...
- 1974
Body - Earth
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- 1968
Money
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A silent screen-type comedy starring Edwin Denby as Hemlock Stinge, the unlovable billionaire.
- 1969
Tarzam
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"The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the art of painting. He meets his first human. His...
- 1938
Haiti
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A travelogue of Port-au-Prince, Haiti concentrating on the daily life and rhythm of tropical island life.
- 1965
Lurk
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“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it....
- 1981
Cerveza Bud
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"This filmic slice of life coalesces into an ethnographic view of a possible future: the city as a constantly bubbling, delirious playground where...
- 1999
Scattered Showers
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Made in the final year of his life, Rudy Burckhardt’s Scattered Showers begins its journey in the city he so scrupulously documented in...
- 1991
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
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This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He...
- 1969
One Flight Up
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ONE FLIGHT UP is both the name of this documentary portrait and the title of a piece by artist Alex Katz. The work-of-the-same-name figures...
- 1975
Default Averted
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When New York was about to go bankrupt, all construction had stopped and an architect tried to become a wrecker. This is the story of the demolition...
- 1940
Pursuit of Happiness
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Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images...
- 1967
Square Times
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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.
- 1974
Dwellings Winter
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Since 1970 Simonds has created Dwelling places for an imaginary civilization of “Little People” who are migrating through the streets of...
- 1989
Ostensibly
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A collage film featuring dual narrations of Ashbery’s eponymous poem of the same name, with both Ashbery and Burckhardt appearing in in front...