Shirley Clarke
Directing
Born 1919-10-02
Died 1997-09-23
New York City, New York, USA
66 credits
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A major figure of the American avant garde, Shirley Brimberg Clarke (1919-1997) was born into privilege as the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants who made their fortune in manufacturing. Rebelling against a repressive bourgeois upbringing, Clarke turned first to dance, and later film and video, to express her distinctive vision of the world.
Moving freely across genres and media throughout her career (and often within a single work), Clarke’s cinema explores the porous boundaries between narrative and documentary filmmaking, and film and other media, such as painting, dance, performance and video. Her 1960s features The Connection (1961), The Cool World (1963) and Portrait of Jason (1967), for which she is arguably best remembered, address issues of urban alienation, poverty, addiction and racism, focusing on lives lived at the margins of American society. Fearless in both her personal and creative life, Clarke produced a body of work that is as formally innovative as it is rooted in social protest.
Clarke initially trained as a dancer, immersing herself in New York’s vibrant post-war avant-garde dance scene. Although her dance career never quite earned her the critical acclaim she’d hoped for, it had a lasting impact on her subsequent filmmaking and video work, informing an interest in how movement is recorded formally, while introducing her to key avant-garde dancers and choreographers.
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Filmography
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Directing
40 credits
The Connection
The Cool World
Portrait of Jason
Decroux Film
Home Movies #20: Dance Tests
Ornette: Made in America
A Visual Diary
Savage/Love
For Life, Against the War
Brussels Loops
Yoko and John Party
Rose and the Players – Part 2
A Moment in Love
Bridges-Go-Round 1
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Mysterium
Skyscraper
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
A Scary Time
Home Movies #15 Shirley with Camera
In Paris Parks
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Trans
Dance in the Sun
Bullfight
Rose and the Players – Part 1
Tongues
24 Frames per Second
Bullfight: The C and D Rolls
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
The Arrest
Fear Flight
Butterfly
Carl Lee on Joe Franklin Show
Morris at Ornette's Art Show
Bridges-Go-Round 2
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 17, 1971
The Tee Pee Video Space Troupe: The First Years
Makeup Magic
This Is Not 'In Paris Parks'
Acting
21 credits
Lions Love
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Birth of a Nation
Alien Blood
Up Your Legs Forever
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Portrait of Jason
Sex Stars
Happy Birthday to John
Underground New York
Galaxie
Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke
A Moment in Love
Christopher and Me
Shirley Clarke: The Artist with the Lens
Home Movies #15 Shirley with Camera
Bullfight
Home Movies #18 Florida
Home Movies #10 Wedding and Pregnancy
Bridges-Go-Round 2
Shirley Brimberg Home Movies (When She Was Young)
Other credits
14 credits
The Connection
The Cool World
Portrait of Jason
Ornette: Made in America
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
The Modnar Machine
Bill's Hat
A Moment in Love
Bridges-Go-Round 1
As Kineastas
Skyscraper
Dance in the Sun
Bullfight
Tongues
Producing
4 credits
Writing
1 credit
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