Marjorie Keller Movies

“This film began as a view out six windows in a crescendo of evocation. Each window is a layer in a different style of representation. Each...

DEPARTURE is a film that was shot in 1976-77 during a year when I lost my job due to both cutbacks at the campus at which I taught and my involvement...

An elegy for a Newfoundland dog named Melville and a portrait of his owner.

Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants....

The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a...

Begun as a document for insurance purposes, OBJECTION catalogues the contents of a house with ever-increasing horror. The soundtrack carries the...

This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was...

Super 8mm transfer to digital, color, sound, 5:07 minutes. Still images of things passing; a diary between city and country. Marjorie Keller and...

“This film doesn’t get anywhere…just like adolescence. The hair comes off, the hair goes on, the hairdresser moves this way and...

Fleeting 8mm views of the Rhode Island coast reach beyond the home movie towards deeper mysteries of light and presence. With window-framed shots,...

A life-light guilt trip, tragicomic psychodrama in the film time. Made in the darkness of my year in a women's dormitory. 1969, Tufts University,...

In THE WEB I delved for the first and only time into film as mischief-making; wicked, like a child.

A portrait: of Saul Levine, filmmaker and one-time Italian Ice Vendor./of the film surface & depth/so by the choice of image./ of the inside &...

Three songs between heaven and earth. With Carmen, Susan, Joseph and Marcus Vigil.

Film Notebook Part 1 from 1975 is a beautiful collection of daily fragments which Keller shot from her life the way one would write in a journal. She...

A portrait of a mother with her arms full in the backyard bathing her twin babies as the early spring light sings and dances. Later the father cooks...

HEREIN charts the movement from political activism to filmmaking through the metaphor of a dwelling. An FBI film obtained under the Freedom of...

A young dancer re-choreographed through film editing. This film was originally made in standard 8mm from a home movie.

Working in the diaristic mode of lyrical cinema, Marjorie Keller arranges fleeting impressions of a summer vacation as pearls on a string. Her...

Anne Becker writes, "The film deals simultaneously with girls becoming women, woman looking back on her childhood. It is pervaded with...