Rudy Burckhardt Movies
- 1937
Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.5.51937HD
A sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the...
- 1967
For Life, Against the War
For Life, Against the War61967HD
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
- 1957
Nymphlight
Nymphlight5.51957HD
A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...
- 1940
Pursuit of Happiness
Pursuit of Happiness6.11940HD
Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images...
- 1974
Body - Earth
Body - Earth41974HD
- 1943
Trinidad
Trinidad01943HD
Rudy Burckhardt shot plenty of film while he was stationed in Trinidad with the Signal Corps in the early 1940s. This short film compiles some of the...
- 1983
Untitled
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Untitled takes an intrigued look around and reports on how things appeared then and what everyone was up to. Lines from a poem by John Ashbery cross...
- 1986
In Bed
In Bed01986HD
To a poem by Kenneth Koch with Chopin played by Gena Raps. "Rudy's lyrical montage opens and reflects the world the way a poem does. He consistently...
- 1957
Angel
Angel5.51957HD
Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.
- 1957
Children
Children01957HD
Slightly different version of Cornell's Mulberry Street. Scenes of Mulberry Street on New York City's Lower East Side, as seen from the point of view...
- 1983
Indelible, Inedible
Indelible, Inedible01983HD
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...
- 1969
Tarzam
Tarzam01969HD
"The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the art of painting. He meets his first human. His...
- 1991
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box01991HD
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He...
- 1970
Summer
Summer01970HD
"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...
- 1987
Zipper
Zipper01987HD
"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...
- 1955
The Aviary
The Aviary4.71955HD
A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for...
- 1999
On Aesthetics
On Aesthetics101999HD
Short film by Swiss-American film-maker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, featuring a poem by Kenneth Koch.
- 1966
Daisy
Daisy01966HD
"a film that looks forward to the many collage films Burckhardt has made in the last two decades. Shot in Maine in black and white, it demonstrates...
- 1955
Joanne, Union Square
Joanne, Union Square01955HD
Footage shot for Cornell by Rudy Burckhardt in December 1955 of a woman buying chestnuts from a street vendor and watching people and birds in a city...
- 1964
Miracle on the BMT
Miracle on the BMT01964HD
a swift tour of subways and streets while it concentrates on a threadbare romantic comedy about a lonely boy and a girl, played by Red and Mimi Grooms