Rudy Burckhardt Movies
- 1974
Body - Earth
Body - Earth41974HD
- 1957
Angel
Angel5.51957HD
Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.
- 1957
Children
Children01957HD
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...
- 1957
Nymphlight
Nymphlight5.41957HD
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...
- 1955
The Aviary
The Aviary4.71955HD
A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for...
- 1967
The Apple
The Apple01967HD
Rudy Burckhardt’s breezy stop-motion animation follows after a poem by his New York School compatriot Kenneth Koch.
- 1967
Square Times
Square Times01967HD
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.
- 1968
Money
Money01968HD
A silent screen-type comedy starring Edwin Denby as Hemlock Stinge, the unlovable billionaire.
- 1943
Trinidad
Trinidad01943HD
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...
- 1971
Inside Dope
Inside Dope01971HD
"A pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. Very funny and slightly sinister, like Red Skelton...
- 1965
Lurk
Lurk01965HD
“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it....
- 1967
For Life, Against the War
For Life, Against the War61967HD
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
- 1950
Mounting Tension
Mounting Tension41950HD
Larry is a madly energetic, oversexed artist. Jane, a combination of palm reader and psychoanalyst, is trying to straighten him out. John is a...
- 1974
City Pasture
City Pasture01974HD
A snow storm – Disney World – self important New York – ox-pull in Maine – a special old man – strip tease – an...
- 1981
Cerveza Bud
Cerveza Bud01981HD
"This filmic slice of life coalesces into an ethnographic view of a possible future: the city as a constantly bubbling, delirious playground where...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1953
Eastside Summer
Eastside Summer01953HD
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...
- 1999
On Aesthetics
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Short film by Swiss-American film-maker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, featuring a poem by Kenneth Koch.