Rudy Burckhardt Movies
- 1995

Tree Streets
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New York streets – Maine woods – New York With poems by Vincent Katz, Dances by Douglas Dunn, Dana Reitz, Grazia Della Terza. Rated M. B....
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- 1974

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...
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- 1955

The Aviary (Short Sound Version)
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Shorter version with sound
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- 1958

Seraphina's Garden
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Joseph Cornell film with input from Rudolph Burckhardt. Also the title to one of Cornell's collages.
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- 1961

Millions in Business as Usual
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A piano sonata by Josef Haydn and New York City. The first, allegro movement is choreographed by midtown crowds, crossing every which way, often...
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- 1987

Zipper
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"A diary or collage film, ranging from snow in the Catskills, with stop-overs in Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco, to Easter in New York, flowers...
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- 1983

Indelible, Inedible
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Images to accompany the lines of a poem by John Ashbery. "Rudy Burckhardt's film is a brilliant extension of my poem, perhaps the film I might have...
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- 1986

Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street
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Here this display of New York textures and cross-sections is juxtaposed with the creation of a dance work, Jig Jag, by choreographer-dancer Douglas...
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- 1956

What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street
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Short film with sound by Rudy Burckhardt, assembled from the footage shot by Joseph Cornell for his own silent "Mulberry Street."
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- 1991

Rubble Dance
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A film-dance, shot on 16mm film in Long Island City, Queens, NY.
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- 1953

Under the Brooklyn Bridge
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"…one cannot deny its documentary value or Burckhardt's eye for detail, his unpretentiousness. There are sequences — the children...
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- 1940

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...
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- 1967

The Apple
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Rudy Burckhardt’s breezy stop-motion animation follows after a poem by his New York School compatriot Kenneth Koch.
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- 1989

Great Regular Flavor
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A pleasant tasting summer film made in New York and Searsmont, Maine. With poems by Daniel Shapiro (age five), performances by Dana Reitz, Yoshiko...
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- 1971

Inside Dope
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"A pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. Very funny and slightly sinister, like Red Skelton...
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- 1962

Shoot the Moon
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Artist Red Grooms and photographer Rudy Burckhardt’s playful homage to George Melies’ “Trip To The Moon” features exaggerated...
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- 1969

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...
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- 1970

Summer
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"A few acres of Maine, a small lake in the woods, wild flowers, clouds, mosses, and mushrooms after the rain. The visual richness is fantastic, the...
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- 1978

Little Red Riding Hood
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Red Grooms' retelling of the classic children's story. Shot by the artist Rudy Burckhardt, it stars Mr. Grooms’s daughter, Saskia, and other...
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- 1973

Caterpillar
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Looking down at nature's small works in the woods of Maine, then straight up at the sky, then down again at the daylong journey of an inchworm.
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