Rudy Burckhardt Movies
- 1974
City Pasture
City Pasture01974HD
A snow storm – Disney World – self important New York – ox-pull in Maine – a special old man – strip tease – an...
- 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...
- 1962
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Moon01962HD
Artist Red Grooms and photographer Rudy Burckhardt’s playful homage to George Melies’ “Trip To The Moon” features exaggerated...
- 1955
The Aviary (Short Sound Version)
The Aviary (Short Sound Version)01955HD
Shorter version with sound
- 1970
Six Days
Six Days01970HD
- 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...
- 1973
Caterpillar
Caterpillar01973HD
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.
- 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...
- 1971
Inside Dope
Inside Dope01971HD
"A pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. Very funny and slightly sinister, like Red Skelton...
- 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...
- 1999
On Aesthetics
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Short film by Swiss-American film-maker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, featuring a poem by Kenneth Koch.
- 1941
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama01941HD
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...
- 1991
Rubble Dance
Rubble Dance01991HD
A film-dance, shot on 16mm film in Long Island City, Queens, NY.
- 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...
- 1954
The Automotive Story
The Automotive Story01954HD
a quiet, humorous mockumentary on cars, with Freilicher narrating Kenneth Koch’s text and Frank O’Hara as the pianist.
- 1969
One Flight Up
One Flight Up01969HD
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...
- 1978
Alex Katz Painting
Alex Katz Painting01978HD
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...
- 1953
Eastside Summer
Eastside Summer01953HD
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...
- 1980
Sonatina and Fugue
Sonatina and Fugue01980HD
Images of city and landscape moving with a romantic piano sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), then classic keyboard figures by Johann S. Bach....