Shirley Clarke
Also Known As: Shirley Brimberg, 셜리 클라크
Biography: Shirley Clarke was an American experimental and independent filmmaker. She was also a director and editor to many famous works.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Deathday: September 23, 1997
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Lions Love
Overview: Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-12
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Sex Stars
Overview: Sex star gives an explosive behind the scenes view of the people who make sexual fantasies come true on the silver screen. Sex Stars is the first feature documentary made by Lech Kowalski.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-21
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As Kineastas
Overview: Based on interviews with 15 women, including directors, producers and film actresses, a journey around the world is made, seeing the wars waged by each one against economic and political repression, bombs, police dogs, censors, etc. Images from England, New York, Brazil, South Africa.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Alien Blood
Overview: Spoof science fiction. An alien mother and her child are pursued across England by a bunch of incompetent government agents and take refuge in a house full of vampires. Homage back to the camp tone of British directors of the 1970's such as Ken Russell, (The Lair Of The White Worm), Robert Fuest, (Dr Phibes Rises Again), and Joe McGrath, (The Magic Christian). Distributed by Troma in the U.S., it contains violence, nudity and exploding bagpipes.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Galaxie
Overview: In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike Kuchar, most observed in their homes or studios. Filmed in vibrant color, Galaxie pulses with life. It is a masterpiece of in-camera composition and editing, and stands as a vibrant response to Andy Warhol's contemporary Screen Tests. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-03
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Portrait of Jason
Overview: Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked, pill-popped view of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960s United States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Milestone Films in 2013.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-29
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Overview: A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-22
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Birth of a Nation
Overview: Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-06
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Underground New York
Overview: A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Happy Birthday to John
Overview: On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the Syracuse Museum of Art, in New York. On the same day an unusual group of John's and Yoko's friends, including Ringo, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krasner, and many others, gathered to celebrate John's birthday. This film is a visual and audio record of that event.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-09
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Bill's Hat
Overview: "The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It’s only love: therefore it can’t harm you". Joyce Wieland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Shirley Brimberg Home Movies (When She Was Young)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Home Movies #18 Florida
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Home Movies #10 Wedding and Pregnancy
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Home Movies #15 Shirley with Camera
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Shirley Clarke: The Artist with the Lens
Overview: A short, Filmstruck-produced documentary on the life of director Shirley Clarke.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Overview: Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-04
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Overview: An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-23
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The Modnar Machine
Overview: UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Interviewees sit in the Modnar Machine and reflect on contemporary life, from war, to television, identity, self-perception, with abstractions in sound and visuals creating a feedback loop.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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