Rudy Burckhardt Movies
- 1955
Joanne, Union Square
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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...
- 1954
The Automotive Story
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a quiet, humorous mockumentary on cars, with Freilicher narrating Kenneth Koch’s text and Frank O’Hara as the pianist.
- 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...
- 1989
Ostensibly
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A collage film featuring dual narrations of Ashbery’s eponymous poem of the same name, with both Ashbery and Burckhardt appearing in in front...
- 1953
A Day in the Life of a Cleaning Woman
A Day in the Life of a Cleaning Woman01953HD
The film's title evokes a mundane slice of life but a kindhearted maid catches a lucky break when her enchanted feather duster makes it so that the...
- 1961
Millions in Business as Usual
Millions in Business as Usual01961HD
A piano sonata by Josef Haydn and New York City. The first, allegro movement is choreographed by midtown crowds, crossing every which way, often...
- 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...
- 1975
The Bottle of the Bulge
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"A funny and gorgeous little animated story of the war between coke and pepsi – the bottles come alive and form armies. The battle scenes are...
- 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.
- 1991
Rubble Dance
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A film-dance, shot on 16mm film in Long Island City, Queens, NY.
- 1999
Scattered Showers
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Made in the final year of his life, Rudy Burckhardt’s Scattered Showers begins its journey in the city he so scrupulously documented in...
- 1941
Montgomery, Alabama
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A soldier on a weekend pass, with Kodachrome in his camera, takes a leisurely walk on both sides of the tracks. Piano by Earl Hines.
- 1986
Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street
Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street01986HD
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...
- 1980
Sonatina and Fugue
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Images of city and landscape moving with a romantic piano sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), then classic keyboard figures by Johann S. Bach....
- 1978
Alex Katz Painting
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In this film we see Katz drawing and painting. We see his paint table (he drinks Medaglia d'Oro and eats Skippy peanut butter in the country), his...
- 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.
- 1953
Under the Brooklyn Bridge
Under the Brooklyn Bridge01953HD
"…one cannot deny its documentary value or Burckhardt's eye for detail, his unpretentiousness. There are sequences — the children...
- 1953
Eastside Summer
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Rudy Burckhardt's color portrait of Manhattan's East Side strolls along at an easy pace befitting blue skies and Thelonious Monk's piano score. Where...
- 1950
Mounting Tension
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Larry is a madly energetic, oversexed artist. Jane, a combination of palm reader and psychoanalyst, is trying to straighten him out. John is a...
- 1974
City Pasture
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A snow storm – Disney World – self important New York – ox-pull in Maine – a special old man – strip tease – an...