Ronald Chase Movies

Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged...

The story of Paul who one day meets a young dancer who is the double of the dead wife he worships. Their meeting triggers a nightmare that takes him...

It is one of the earliest of the gay films after Stonewall, and one that refused to see touch, affection, and sensuality only in pornographic terms....

This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the...

A woman remembers the moments with her lover and believes she's made herself ridiculous. She's become a clown.

Doomed lovers visit a country fair, spend a long afternoon in the forest before they drown themselves in the river. FIlm thought lost for 30 years,...

A short film on the first Gay Pride March in San Francisco in 1971 the year after the Stonewall Riots. This film was lost for 50 years before it was...

Sally Simpson played to a song rendered by Bette Midler (one of the cast) behind the proscenium curtain. Filmed in San Francisco in collaborated with...

Dance film of work by choreographer Elizabeth Harris with original score by Pauline Oliveros. The score is for prepared piano and was performed live...

A true story, fillmed in Rome with both actors & non actors. in the 1500's Roman life was often a nightmare - Count Cenci tortured his family, raped...

A film by students of the Film Workshop of San Francisco Art & Film, under the direction of Ronald Chase. A boy tries to comfort a woman who has...

A fantasy on the childhood of a highly gifted pianist/composer who visited Italy & Germany on a concert tour when he was 10. The film serves as a...

An artist book completed by Ronald Chase in 1992. Suggested by medieval manuscripts.

A young man (Jean Yves Pitoun) keeps awakening from a nightmare in which he kills a young child (Kim Beeson).

A woman remembers the love affairs with an artist and a fisherman that led her husband to suicide.

The beauty and wonder of our natural environment gives cause for a celebration. The viewer joins a group of youngsters discovering and enjoying...