Rudy Burckhardt Movies

A snapshot from the filmmaker's own life in rural Maine.

A fairy tale about a pair of moccasins that take off on their own, through woods and fields into the town of Belfast, Maine. They fall in love, drink...

"Lurking crime and lingering desire change the atmosphere of this brief but affecting film. The light changes moment by moment. The season is...

A short film by the painter Yvonne Jacquette.

Images of city and landscape moving with a romantic piano sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), then classic keyboard figures by Johann S. Bach....

A documentary about the sex industry around 8th Avenue and 42nd Street.

Looking down at nature's small works in the woods of Maine, then straight up at the sky, then down again at the daylong journey of an inchworm.

Rudy Burckhardt shot plenty of film while he was stationed in Trinidad with the Signal Corps in the early 1940s. This short film compiles some of the...

Crates and boxes unloading in the morning, lonely men sitting on half-broken docks in the afternoon, sailor bars at night with one poor bum actually...

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

Here this display of New York textures and cross-sections is juxtaposed with the creation of a dance work, Jig Jag, by choreographer-dancer Douglas...

A Saturday night on 42nd Street, from dusk to dawn: the glamour, the garbage, the hot dogs, the movies, the sex, and the violence in the air.