Carolee Schneemann Movies

  • 1966
    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

    61966HD

    Schneemann's classic 1966 aerial "Kinetic Theatre" work was first staged at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, with eight performers moving to a score...

    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)
  • 2007
    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    02007HD

    Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972. Unfortunately, the original...

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie
  • 2011
    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories

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    Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs. Along the way he...

    Sleepless Nights Stories
  • 2009
    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    62009HD

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie completes Schneemann's exploration of human and feline sensual communication. It incorporates extracts of the original...

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie
  • 1967
    Snows

    Snows

    Snows

    61967HD

    This is a newly restored version of documentation of the 1967 group performance Snows, which was built out of Schneemann's outrage and sorrows over...

    Snows
  • 1972
    Plumb Line

    Plumb Line

    Plumb Line

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    The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a...

    Plumb Line
  • 1966
    No. 4

    No. 4

    No. 4

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    This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.

    No. 4
  • 2012
    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

    02012HD

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree, a performance-lecture by Carolee Schneemann, was first presented on December 15, 2011 as part of...

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree
  • 1969
    Heads

    Heads

    Heads

    01969HD

    Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

    Heads
  • 1988
    Catscan

    Catscan

    Catscan

    01988HD

    Catscan is a group performance within a chaotic density of projected images and office furniture, motivated by Egyptian funerary rituals of mourning,...

    Catscan
  • 1959
    Cat's Cradle

    Cat's Cradle

    Cat's Cradle

    5.91959HD

    Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work...

    Cat's Cradle
  • 1995
    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    01995HD

    In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll reading the text as each woman slowly...

    Interior Scroll — The Cave
  • 2004
    Devour

    Devour

    Devour

    02004HD

    Devour is a dual-channel version of the artist's multi-channel video projection installation of the same name. Schneemann notes that this work brings...

    Devour
  • 1976
    Kitch's Last Meal

    Kitch's Last Meal

    Kitch's Last Meal

    61976HD

    Schneemann’s cat, Kitch, who was featured in works such as Fuses, was a major figure in Schneemann’s work for almost twenty years. The...

    Kitch's Last Meal
  • 1991
    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

    01991HD

    Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from...

    Ask the Goddess
  • 1977
    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    01977HD

    Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas. In ABC - We...

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards
  • 1963
    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    61963HD

    In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles,...

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast
  • 1964
    Site

    Site

    Site

    61964HD

    Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.

    Site
  • 1972
    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    01972HD

    The Super 8mm film “Muñecos” (1972) — shot by the artist, Leopoldo Maler and Carolee Schneemann — combines recordings...

    Muñecos (Have a baby)
  • 1989
    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...

    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...

    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...

    01989HD

    About the relationship between a man and a woman.

    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...