Carolee Schneemann Movies

  • 2009
    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    62009HD

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie completes Schneemann's exploration of human and feline sensual communication. It incorporates extracts of the original...

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie
  • 1967
    Snows

    Snows

    Snows

    61967HD

    This is a newly restored version of documentation of the 1967 group performance Snows, which was built out of Schneemann's outrage and sorrows over...

    Snows
  • 1967
    Body Collage

    Body Collage

    Body Collage

    01967HD

    Body Collage is a visceral "movement-event" from 1967, in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses, and then runs, leaps,...

    Body Collage
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

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    Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

    Emma's Dilemma
  • 1969
    Illinois Central Transposed

    Illinois Central Transposed

    Illinois Central Transposed

    01969HD

    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
  • 1991
    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

    01991HD

    Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from...

    Ask the Goddess
  • 1977
    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    01977HD

    Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas. In ABC - We...

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards
  • 1987
    Art Is Reactionary

    Art Is Reactionary

    Art Is Reactionary

    01987HD

    Art Is Reactionary is the 10-minute video recording of a performance by Carolee Schneemann dating from 1987. Carolee Schneemann shares the stage...

    Art Is Reactionary
  • 2010
    Mysteries of the Pussies

    Mysteries of the Pussies

    Mysteries of the Pussies

    02010HD

    For this performative/lecture, Schneemann invited Teija Lammi, museum librarian at the Porin Taidemuseo in Pori, Finland, to be an improvisatory...

    Mysteries of the Pussies
  • 1964
    Site

    Site

    Site

    61964HD

    Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.

    Site
  • 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
  • 1972
    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    01972HD

    The Super 8mm film “Muñecos” (1972) — shot by the artist, Leopoldo Maler and Carolee Schneemann — combines recordings...

    Muñecos (Have a baby)
  • 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
  • 1988
    Catscan

    Catscan

    Catscan

    01988HD

    Catscan is a group performance within a chaotic density of projected images and office furniture, motivated by Egyptian funerary rituals of mourning,...

    Catscan
  • 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
  • 2012
    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

    02012HD

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree, a performance-lecture by Carolee Schneemann, was first presented on December 15, 2011 as part of...

    Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree
  • 1963
    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    01963HD

    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
  • 1966
    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)

    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)

    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)

    01966HD

    Eight performers, suspended from ropes, move to a score of randomized encounter. Schneemann writes that this "kinetic theatre" work was "conceived as...

    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)