Carolee Schneemann Movies

  • 1977
    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    01977HD

    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
  • 1976
    Kitch's Last Meal

    Kitch's Last Meal

    Kitch's Last Meal

    61976HD

    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
  • 1965
    Viet Flakes

    Viet Flakes

    Viet Flakes

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    Viet Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images, compiled over five years, from foreign magazines and newspapers....

    Viet Flakes
  • 2007
    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    02007HD

    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
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

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    Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

    Emma's Dilemma
  • 1971
    Plumb Line

    Plumb Line

    Plumb Line

    5.81971HD

    The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a...

    Plumb Line
  • 1995
    Vulva's School

    Vulva's School

    Vulva's School

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    A performance in which Schneemann personifies an irrepressible vulva, which engages two animal hand puppets in a clamorous deconstruction of sexual...

    Vulva's School
  • 1976
    Up To and Including Her Limits

    Up To and Including Her Limits

    Up To and Including Her Limits

    01976HD

    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
  • 1967
    Fuses

    Fuses

    Fuses

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    A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...

    Fuses
  • 1987
    Art Is Reactionary

    Art Is Reactionary

    Art Is Reactionary

    01987HD

    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
  • 1983
    Souvenir of Lebanon

    Souvenir of Lebanon

    Souvenir of Lebanon

    01983HD

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

    Souvenir of Lebanon
  • 1989
    Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus

    Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus

    Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus

    01989HD

    A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the "Internationale Situationniste," "Cobra," "Spur,"...

    Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus
  • 1995
    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    01995HD

    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
  • 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
    Fresh Blood

    Fresh Blood

    Fresh Blood

    01983HD

    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
  • 1972
    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    Muñecos (Have a baby)

    01972HD

    The Super 8mm film “Muñecos” (1972) — shot by the artist, Leopoldo Maler and Carolee Schneemann — combines recordings...

    Muñecos (Have a baby)
  • 1967
    Body Collage

    Body Collage

    Body Collage

    01967HD

    Body Collage is a visceral "movement-event" from 1967, in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses, and then runs, leaps,...

    Body Collage
  • 1969
    Illinois Central Transposed

    Illinois Central Transposed

    Illinois Central Transposed

    01969HD

    A compilation of Schneemann's anti-Vietnam War group performances, this work merges film projection, sound and slide systems, light beams, audience...

    Illinois Central Transposed
  • 1966
    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

    61966HD

    Schneemann's classic 1966 aerial "Kinetic Theatre" work was first staged at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, with eight performers moving to a score...

    Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)
  • 2009
    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie

    62009HD

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

    Infinity Kisses - The Movie