Carolee Schneemann Movies

  • 1959
    Cat's Cradle

    Cat's Cradle

    Cat's Cradle

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    Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work...

    Cat's Cradle
  • 1983
    Fresh Blood

    Fresh Blood

    Fresh Blood

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    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
  • 2004
    Devour

    Devour

    Devour

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    Devour is a dual-channel version of the artist's multi-channel video projection installation of the same name. Schneemann notes that this work brings...

    Devour
  • 1967
    Snows

    Snows

    Snows

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    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
  • 2018
    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

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    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
  • 2012
    America Is Not Ready for This

    America Is Not Ready for This

    America Is Not Ready for This

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    The tradition of modernism and neo-avant-garde are faced in the project, in which Radziszewski is confronting both – Polish and Western –...

    America Is Not Ready for This
  • 1976
    Kitch's Last Meal

    Kitch's Last Meal

    Kitch's Last Meal

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    Schneemann’s cat, Kitch, who was featured in works such as Fuses, was a major figure in Schneemann’s work for almost twenty years. The...

    Kitch's Last Meal
  • 2015
    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

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    She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual...

    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
  • 2015
    Masculinity/Femininity

    Masculinity/Femininity

    Masculinity/Femininity

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    Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super...

    Masculinity/Femininity
  • 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...
  • 1995
    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

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    In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll reading the text as each woman slowly...

    Interior Scroll — The Cave
  • 1976
    Up To and Including Her Limits

    Up To and Including Her Limits

    Up To and Including Her Limits

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    Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and...

    Up To and Including Her Limits
  • 1977
    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

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    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
  • 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)
  • 1963
    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

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    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
  • 2009
    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

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

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie
  • 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
  • 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

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    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
  • 1983
    Souvenir of Lebanon

    Souvenir of Lebanon

    Souvenir of Lebanon

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    Writes Schneemann: "Souvenir of Lebanon follows a long video pan through destroyed Palestinian and Lebanese villages. In 1982-83, Israeli ceaseless...

    Souvenir of Lebanon
  • 2007
    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

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    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