Richard Foreman Movies

Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their...

A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double...

"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...

An opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman

Written by legendary theater artist, Richard Foreman, Planet Earth: Dreams revolves around the desire to escape -- not to a Dream world -- but to a...

Since the late 1960s, the almost annual productions of Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater have been among New York’s artistic...

"The theater is about sex." At least according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater. THE ONTOLOGICAL COWBOY documents...

A filmed play by Richard Foreman.

A "young woman who finds herself surrounded by the relics of Western culture" is the subject of Richard Foreman's formal tableaux. The narration...

Avant garde film from 1978, by playwright and filmmaker Richard Foreman.

In this “video play”, which was shown on WGBH/WNET’s series, “New Television”, playwright/director Richard Foreman...