Yvonne Rainer Movies
- 1996
MURDER and murder
MURDER and murder5.11996HD
Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the...
- 1980
Journeys from Berlin/1971
Journeys from Berlin/197191980HD
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
- 2013
What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.22013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
- 1978
Madame X - An Absolute Ruler
Madame X - An Absolute Ruler41978HD
The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising "gold, love and adventure" to all...
- 1975
What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew51975HD
The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1974
Film About a Woman Who…
Film About a Woman Who…51974HD
Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story...
- 1985
The Man Who Envied Women
The Man Who Envied Women5.21985HD
A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.
- 1990
Privilege
Privilege4.41990HD
Privilege is an intelligently conceived, boldly anarchic, and wickedly insightful exposition on the culturally ingrained and socially divisive...
- 2015
Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer
Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer02015HD
Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer chronicles the defiant, uncompromising, and highly influential ideas of postmodern choreographer and...
- 1978
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance81978HD
Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...
- 1976
Kristina Talking Pictures
Kristina Talking Pictures41976HD
Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist...
- 1967
Volleyball (Foot Film)
Volleyball (Foot Film)3.81967HD
A volleyball is rolled into the frame and comes to rest. Two legs in sneakers, seen from the knees down, enter the frame and stand beside it. Cut to...
- 1972
Lives of Performers
Lives of Performers5.31972HD
Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and...
- 1970
Trio A with Flags
Trio A with Flags01970HD
Judson Memorial Church on the occasion of the People’s Flag Show, 1970. Film by Rudi Stern, John Reilly. Performers: David Gordon, Nancy Green,...
- 2023
I Cannot Now Recall
I Cannot Now Recall02023HD
In I Cannot Now Recall, a collection of Yvonne Rainer's dreams are presented, selected by the filmmaker from Rainer's journals. Through choice and...
- 1966
Hand Film
Hand Film11966HD
Rainer's first film, Hand Film, was shot by fellow dancer William Davis when Rainer was confined to a hospital bed, recovering from major surgery and...
- 1968
Trio Film
Trio Film01968HD
Two nudes, a man and a woman, interact with each other and a large balloon in a white living room. Performed by Steve Paxton and Becky Arnold....
- 1980
Cinématon X
Cinématon X01980HD
Reel 10 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.