Shirley Clarke
Directing
1919-10-02 · New York City, New York, USA
A major figure of the American avant garde, Shirley Brimberg Clarke (1919-1997) was born into privilege as the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants who made their fortune in manufacturing. Rebelling against a repressive bourgeois upbringing, Clarke turned first to dance, and later film and video, to express her distinctive vision of the world. Moving freely across genres and media throughout her career (and often within a single work), Clarke’s cinema explores the porous boundaries between narrative and documentary filmmaking, and film and other media, such as painting, dance, performance and video. Her 1960s features The Connection (1961), The Cool World (1963) and Portrait of Jason (1967), for which she is arguably best remembered, address issues of urban alienation, poverty, addiction and racism, focusing on lives lived at the margins of American society. Fearless in both her personal and creative life, Clarke produced a body of work that is as formally innovative as it is rooted in social protest. Clarke initially trained as a dancer, immersing herself in New York’s vibrant post-war avant-garde dance scene. Although her dance career never quite earned her the critical acclaim she’d hoped for, it had a lasting impact on her subsequent filmmaking and video work, informing an interest in how movement is recorded formally, while introducing her to key avant-garde dancers and choreographers. Source: https://denniscooperblog.com/shirley-clarke-day-2/
Filmography
Rose and the Players – Part 2
2016 · Movie
This Is Not 'In Paris Parks'
2016 · Movie
Rose and the Players – Part 1
2016 · Movie
Bullfight: The C and D Rolls
2016 · Movie
Home Movies #20: Dance Tests
2016 · Movie
Decroux Film
2016 · Movie
Outtakes for 'In Paris Parks'
2016 · Movie
A Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution of Ragtime as Presented by Jelly Roll Morton
2016 · Movie
Fear Flight
2016 · Movie
Shirley Clarke: The Artist with the Lens
2016 · Movie
Alien Blood
1999 · Movie
Happy Birthday to John
1997 · Movie
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Movie
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · Movie
Ornette: Made in America
1986 · Movie
As Kineastas
1986 · Movie
Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video Game
1984 · Movie
Tongues
1982 · Movie
Savage/Love
1981 · Movie
A Visual Diary
1980 · Movie
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
1980 · Movie
The Modnar Machine
1980 · Movie
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three
1978 · Movie
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation
1978 · Movie
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Mysterium
1978 · Movie
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Trans
1978 · Movie
24 Frames per Second
1977 · Movie
Sex Stars
1976 · Movie
Carl Lee on Joe Franklin Show
1973 · Movie
Morris at Ornette's Art Show
1972 · Movie
Yoko and John Party
1971 · Movie
Up Your Legs Forever
1971 · Movie
Makeup Magic
1971 · Movie
Ricky Leacock Visit, evening, April 19, 1971
1971 · Movie
Ricky Leacock Visit, daytime, April 19, 1971
1971 · Movie
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 17, 1971
1971 · Movie
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
1971 · Movie
The Arrest
1971 · Movie
Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke
1970 · Movie
Lions Love
1969 · Movie
Carl Lee, Max and Friends at the Hotel Chelsea
1968 · Movie
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Movie
Underground New York
1968 · Movie
Portrait of Jason
1967 · Movie
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Movie
Butterfly
1967 · Movie
Bill's Hat
1967 · Movie
Galaxie
1966 · Movie
The Cool World
1964 · Movie
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
1963 · Movie
The Connection
1962 · Movie
Christopher and Me
1960 · Movie
A Scary Time
1960 · Movie
Skyscraper
1959 · Movie
Bridges-Go-Round 1
1958 · Movie
Bridges-Go-Round 2
1958 · Movie
Brussels Loops
1958 · Movie
A Moment in Love
1956 · Movie
Bullfight
1955 · Movie
In Paris Parks
1954 · Movie
Dance in the Sun
1953 · Movie
Home Movies #15 Shirley with Camera
1950 · Movie
Home Movies #18 Florida
1943 · Movie
Home Movies #10 Wedding and Pregnancy
1943 · Movie
Shirley Brimberg Home Movies (When She Was Young)
1927 · Movie
The Tee Pee Video Space Troupe: The First Years
Movie