Carolee Schneemann Movies

  • 1959
    Cat's Cradle

    Cat's Cradle

    Cat's Cradle

    5.81959HD

    Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work...

    Cat's Cradle
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1995
    Vulva's School

    Vulva's School

    Vulva's School

    01995HD

    A performance in which Schneemann personifies an irrepressible vulva, which engages two animal hand puppets in a clamorous deconstruction of sexual...

    Vulva's School
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1998
    Women of Vision

    Women of Vision

    Women of Vision

    11998HD

    Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the...

    Women of Vision
  • 2020
    Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

    Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

    Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

    02020HD

    A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century,...

    Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
  • 2015
    Masculinity/Femininity

    Masculinity/Femininity

    Masculinity/Femininity

    02015HD

    Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super...

    Masculinity/Femininity
  • 1964
    Meat Joy

    Meat Joy

    Meat Joy

    6.61964HD

    "Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent...

    Meat Joy
  • 2010
    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

    4.72010HD

    Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing...

    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
  • 2018
    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    5.62018HD

    From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the...

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
  • 1967
    Fuses

    Fuses

    Fuses

    5.81967HD

    A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...

    Fuses
  • 1970
    Times For

    Times For

    Times For

    71970HD

    A sexually frustrated man complies with the emotional and erotic wishes of four women, but afterwards he is left even lonelier than before.

    Times For
  • 1966
    No. 4

    No. 4

    No. 4

    2.61966HD

    This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.

    No. 4
  • 2011
    Maya Deren's Sink

    Maya Deren's Sink

    Maya Deren's Sink

    4.52011HD

    Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit...

    Maya Deren's Sink
  • 1976
    Up To and Including Her Limits

    Up To and Including Her Limits

    Up To and Including Her Limits

    01976HD

    Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and...

    Up To and Including Her Limits
  • 2011
    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories

    5.72011HD

    Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...

    Sleepless Nights Stories
  • 1957
    Loving

    Loving

    Loving

    01957HD

    In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows...

    Loving
  • 2015
    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

    52015HD

    She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual...

    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
  • 2007
    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    02007HD

    Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972. Unfortunately, the original...

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie
  • 1969
    Heads

    Heads

    Heads

    01969HD

    Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

    Heads