Carolee Schneemann Movies

  • 1979
    Split Decision

    Split Decision

    Split Decision

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    This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes...

    Split Decision
  • 1972
    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

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

    Muñecos (Have a baby)
  • 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
  • 1987
    Art Is Reactionary

    Art Is Reactionary

    Art Is Reactionary

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    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
  • 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
  • 1989
    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...

    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...

    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...

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    About the relationship between a man and a woman.

    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...
  • 1991
    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

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    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
  • 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)

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    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)
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    12012HD

    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
  • 1957
    Loving

    Loving

    Loving

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    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
  • 1998
    Women of Vision

    Women of Vision

    Women of Vision

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    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