Carolee Schneemann Movies

  • 1963
    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

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    In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles,...

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast
  • 1995
    Vulva's School

    Vulva's School

    Vulva's School

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

    Vulva's School
  • 1983
    Fresh Blood

    Fresh Blood

    Fresh Blood

    01983HD

    Vulvic puns, jokes and ruminations on the meanings of menstrual blood activate a range of taboos surrounding cultural notions of the feminine as a...

    Fresh Blood
  • 1969
    Illinois Central Transposed

    Illinois Central Transposed

    Illinois Central Transposed

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    A compilation of Schneemann's anti-Vietnam War group performances, this work merges film projection, sound and slide systems, light beams, audience...

    Illinois Central Transposed
  • 1966
    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

    01966HD

    Schneemann's classic 1966 aerial "Kinetic Theatre" work was first staged at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, with eight performers moving to a score...

    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)
  • 1995
    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    01995HD

    In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll reading the text as each woman slowly...

    Interior Scroll — The Cave
  • 1993
    Four Recent Installations

    Four Recent Installations

    Four Recent Installations

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    In all Schneemann's montages, films and performances, there is an insistent repetition of disparate motifs — within each work and from work to...

    Four Recent Installations