Rudy Burckhardt Movies

  • 1974
    Body - Earth

    Body - Earth

    Body - Earth

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    Body - Earth
  • 1957
    Angel

    Angel

    Angel

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

    Angel
  • 1957
    Children

    Children

    Children

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    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 view...

    Children
  • 1957
    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

    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...

    Nymphlight
  • 1955
    The Aviary

    The Aviary

    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...

    The Aviary
  • 1967
    The Apple

    The Apple

    The Apple

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

    The Apple
  • 1967
    Square Times

    Square Times

    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.

    Square Times
  • 1968
    Money

    Money

    Money

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

    Money
  • 1943
    Trinidad

    Trinidad

    Trinidad

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    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 the...

    Trinidad
  • 1971
    Inside Dope

    Inside Dope

    Inside Dope

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

    Inside Dope
  • 1965
    Lurk

    Lurk

    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....

    Lurk
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    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...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1950
    Mounting Tension

    Mounting Tension

    Mounting Tension

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

    Mounting Tension
  • 1974
    City Pasture

    City Pasture

    City Pasture

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    A snow storm – Disney World – self important New York – ox-pull in Maine – a special old man – strip tease – an...

    City Pasture
  • 1981
    Cerveza Bud

    Cerveza Bud

    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...

    Cerveza Bud
  • 1940
    Pursuit of Happiness

    Pursuit of Happiness

    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...

    Pursuit of Happiness
  • 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.

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

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    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...

    Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
  • 1999
    Scattered Showers

    Scattered Showers

    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...

    Scattered Showers
  • 1953
    Eastside Summer

    Eastside Summer

    Eastside Summer

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    Rudy Burckhardt's color portrait of Manhattan's East Side strolls along at an easy pace befitting blue skies and Thelonious Monk's piano score. Where...

    Eastside Summer
  • 1999
    On Aesthetics

    On Aesthetics

    On Aesthetics

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    Short film by Swiss-American film-maker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, featuring a poem by Kenneth Koch.

    On Aesthetics