Rudy Burckhardt Movies

  • 1957
    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

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    A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...

    Nymphlight
  • 1965
    A Legend for Fountains

    A Legend for Fountains

    A Legend for Fountains

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    A sombre day in the city. "A Legend for Fountains" is the 16-minute version, "A Fable for Fountains" the 6-minute version.

    A Legend for Fountains
  • 1957
    Angel

    Angel

    Angel

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    Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.

    Angel
  • 1955
    The Aviary

    The Aviary

    The Aviary

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    A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for...

    The Aviary
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1937
    Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.

    Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.

    Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.

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    A sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the...

    Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
  • 1974
    Body - Earth

    Body - Earth

    Body - Earth

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    Body - Earth
  • 1968
    Money

    Money

    Money

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    A silent screen-type comedy starring Edwin Denby as Hemlock Stinge, the unlovable billionaire.

    Money
  • 1969
    Tarzam

    Tarzam

    Tarzam

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    "The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the art of painting. He meets his first human. His...

    Tarzam
  • 1938
    Haiti

    Haiti

    Haiti

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    A travelogue of Port-au-Prince, Haiti concentrating on the daily life and rhythm of tropical island life.

    Haiti
  • 1965
    Lurk

    Lurk

    Lurk

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    “Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it....

    Lurk
  • 1981
    Cerveza Bud

    Cerveza Bud

    Cerveza Bud

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    "This filmic slice of life coalesces into an ethnographic view of a possible future: the city as a constantly bubbling, delirious playground where...

    Cerveza Bud
  • 1999
    Scattered Showers

    Scattered Showers

    Scattered Showers

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    Made in the final year of his life, Rudy Burckhardt’s Scattered Showers begins its journey in the city he so scrupulously documented in...

    Scattered Showers
  • 1991
    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

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    This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He...

    Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
  • 1969
    One Flight Up

    One Flight Up

    One Flight Up

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    ONE FLIGHT UP is both the name of this documentary portrait and the title of a piece by artist Alex Katz. The work-of-the-same-name figures...

    One Flight Up
  • 1975
    Default Averted

    Default Averted

    Default Averted

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    When New York was about to go bankrupt, all construction had stopped and an architect tried to become a wrecker. This is the story of the demolition...

    Default Averted
  • 1940
    Pursuit of Happiness

    Pursuit of Happiness

    Pursuit of Happiness

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    Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images...

    Pursuit of Happiness
  • 1967
    Square Times

    Square Times

    Square Times

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    A Saturday night on 42nd Street, from dusk to dawn: the glamour, the garbage, the hot dogs, the movies, the sex, and the violence in the air.

    Square Times
  • 1974
    Dwellings Winter

    Dwellings Winter

    Dwellings Winter

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    Since 1970 Simonds has created Dwelling places for an imaginary civilization of “Little People” who are migrating through the streets of...

    Dwellings Winter
  • 1989
    Ostensibly

    Ostensibly

    Ostensibly

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    A collage film featuring dual narrations of Ashbery’s eponymous poem of the same name, with both Ashbery and Burckhardt appearing in in front...

    Ostensibly

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