Rudy Burckhardt Movies

This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He...

A sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the...

A silent screen-type comedy starring Edwin Denby as Hemlock Stinge, the unlovable billionaire.

Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...

"The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the art of painting. He meets his first human. His...

"…one cannot deny its documentary value or Burckhardt's eye for detail, his unpretentiousness. There are sequences — the children...

To a poem by Kenneth Koch with Chopin played by Gena Raps. "Rudy's lyrical montage opens and reflects the world the way a poem does. He consistently...

A sombre day in the city. "A Legend for Fountains" is the 16-minute version, "A Fable for Fountains" the 6-minute version.

a swift tour of subways and streets while it concentrates on a threadbare romantic comedy about a lonely boy and a girl, played by Red and Mimi Grooms

Artist Red Grooms and photographer Rudy Burckhardt’s playful homage to George Melies’ “Trip To The Moon” features exaggerated...

A detailed look at a remarkable artist who died in 1999 at age 85. Aspects of Burckhardt's work in photography, film, and painting are examined in...

Short film by Rudy Burckhardt.

A film-dance, shot on 16mm film in Long Island City, Queens, NY.

A travelogue of Port-au-Prince, Haiti concentrating on the daily life and rhythm of tropical island life.

A romantic pair leaves their flat for a desultory burlesque show and two workmen take advantage of the empty house to pilfer a wallet.

“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it....

Untilted takes an intrigued look around and reports on how things appeared then and what everyone was up to. Lines from a poem by John Ashbery cross...

Red Grooms' retelling of the classic children's story. Shot by the artist Rudy Burckhardt, it stars Mr. Grooms’s daughter, Saskia, and other...