Back to At Home SHORT FILMSShort works from beloved auteurs. An ambitious, scene-shifting piece in which Clarke explores the possibilities of avant-garde dance on film.A MOMENT IN LOVEShirley Clarke | 9 min | 1956 A stirring meditation on the colonial past and a possible pan-African future.AMERICAN HUNGEREphraim Asili | 19 min | 2013 In Blonde Cobra, dubbed “the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema” by Jonas Mekas, Jacobs turns his camera on fellow underground icon Jack Smith. Selected by Harry Kroessler.BLONDE COBRAKEN JACOBS | 33 min | 1963 Clarke’s vividly colored short turns the bridges of New York Harbor into an eerie, swaying jungle of dizzying abstractions.BRIDGES GO ROUNDShirley Clarke | 8 min | 1958 Clarke documents a bravura performance by Anna Sokolow, a choreographed interpretation of the dance between matador and bull.BULLFIGHTShirley Clarke | 9 min | 1955 A condensed, intricately shot version of Ferdinand Bruckner’s 1926 play, starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder.THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMPJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 23 min | 1968 Clarke’s first completed short, observing choreographer Daniel Nagrin.DANCE IN THE SUNShirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953 The final film in Asili’s Diaspora Suite, an ode to resistance in the face of repression.FLUID FRONTIERSEphraim Asili | 23 min | 2017 An electric combination of diary film, documentary, and fiction, moving from Harlem to the cities and villages of Ethiopia.FORGED WAYSEphraim Asili | 15 min | 2010 One of several early experimental trial films produced by Clarke that illustrates her long-standing ambition to find new dimensions to dance on screen.HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTSShirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953 A young boy holds a tender vigil over a horse that’s reached the end of his life.THE HORSECharles Burnett | 14 min | 1973 A study of bodies in motion—specifically, the flow of crowds in and out of the parks of Paris.IN PARIS PARKSShirley Clarke | 14 min | 1954 The penultimate entry in the Diaspora Suite, shot between New York and the Jamaican city of Accompong.KINDAHEphraim Asili | 12 min | 2016 A collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Selected by Harry Kroessler.LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESSKEN JACOBS | 15 min | 1960 The pair’s first collaboration, based on a short story by Heinrich Böll.MACHORKA-MUFFJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 18 min | 1962 A single summer afternoon in two cityscapes a world apart: Harlem, New York, and Salvador, Brazil.MANY THOUSANDS GONEEphraim Asili | 8 min | 2015 Ken Jacobs documents the tradition of eager haggling and bargain hunting that once took place on the Lower East Side commercial thoroughfare of the title. Selected by Harry Kroessler.ORCHARD STREETKEN JACOBS | 12 min | 1955 Burnett observes a New Orleans family displaced by Hurricane Katrina in this sweetly comic, lovingly detailed short.QUIET AS KEPTCharles Burnett | 6 min | 2007 This playful live-action short, nominated for an Academy Award, daringly documents the construction of the Tishman Building high above Fifth Avenue.SKYSCRAPERShirley Clarke | 20 min | 1960 One man’s quest for love, an intensely emotional short film by Clarke working with playwright Sam Shepard and actor Joseph Chaikin.SAVAGE/LOVEShirley Clarke | 25 min | 1981 Showing his distinctly American brand of neorealism, Burnett’s first short follows a group of friends filling an empty L.A. day.SEVERAL FRIENDSCharles Burnett | 21 min | 1969 Facing eviction, a desperate mother enlists the help of a jazz musician in Burnett’s playful and deeply empathetic short.WHEN IT RAINSCharles Burnett | 14 min | 1995 A collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Selected by Harry Kroessler.THE WHIRLEDKEN JACOBS | 20 min | 2007 Jacobs, always interested in experiments in perception, uses his camera to contemplate the frame of a window and the exterior beyond. Selected by Harry Kroessler.WINDOWKEN JACOBS | 12 min | 1964
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