Carolee Schneemann

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Carolee Schneemann, a groundbreaking performance and multidisciplinary artist, has used film and video since the 1960s. Shattering taboos and redefining the notion of the erotic, she confronts sexuality, gender, and the social construction of the female body. Her seminal performances of the 1970s were as transgressive as they were influential. Schneemann continues to provoke, as she explores female sexuality in relation to art-making, ritual, and culture.

Most Popular Carolee Schneemann Trailers

Total trailers found: 51

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel Trailer (2015)

18 May 2015

She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual memory until today.

Emma's Dilemma Trailer (2012)

18 June 2012

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 and essences of such downtown luminaries as Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Carolee Schneemann, Hills’s cinematic inventions literally turn the screen upside down and inside out.

Masculinity/Femininity Trailer (2015)

23 March 2015

Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance.

Heads Trailer (1969)

19 December 1969

Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

Loving Trailer (1957)

01 January 1957

In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows and whites.

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible Trailer (2020)

23 October 2020

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture.

Maya Deren's Sink Trailer (2011)

05 January 2011

Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film.

Home Movies 1971-81 Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

No. 4 Trailer (1966)

06 February 1966

This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.

!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution Trailer (2010)

12 September 2010

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.

Sleepless Nights Stories Trailer (2011)

15 December 2011

Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs.

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor Trailer (2018)

20 February 2018

From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives.

Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast Trailer (1963)

01 January 1963

In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles, known for his irascible personality and finely-crafted atonal music.

Devour Trailer (2004)

03 April 2004

Devour is a dual-channel version of the artist's multi-channel video projection installation of the same name.

Vulva's School Trailer (1995)

05 April 1995

A performance in which Schneemann personifies an irrepressible vulva, which engages two animal hand puppets in a clamorous deconstruction of sexual bias in French semiotics, Marxism, patriarchal religions and physical taboos.

ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards Trailer (1977)

15 June 1977

Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas.

Grimace Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the camera.

Up To and Including Her Limits Trailer (1976)

09 June 1976

Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and drawing; her moving body becomes a measure of concentration, the sustained and variable movements of her extended drawing hand creates a dense web of strokes and marking.

Souvenir of Lebanon Trailer (1983)

01 April 1983

Writes Schneemann: "Souvenir of Lebanon follows a long video pan through destroyed Palestinian and Lebanese villages.

Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree, a performance-lecture by Carolee Schneemann, was first presented on December 15, 2011 as part of the 40th Anniversary Benefit at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI).

Ask the Goddess Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from cards they have submitted.

Fresh Blood Trailer (1983)

08 April 1983

Vulvic puns, jokes and ruminations on the meanings of menstrual blood activate a range of taboos surrounding cultural notions of the feminine as a metaphoric battle ground of the body and of language itself.

Women of Vision Trailer (1998)

03 August 1998

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video.

Interior Scroll — The Cave Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll reading the text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina.

Four Recent Installations Trailer (1993)

01 April 1993

In all Schneemann's montages, films and performances, there is an insistent repetition of disparate motifs — within each work and from work to work.

Split Decision Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation.

Illinois Central Transposed Trailer (1969)

14 April 1969

A compilation of Schneemann's anti-Vietnam War group performances, this work merges film projection, sound and slide systems, light beams, audience and performer action in a sensory collage linking the exposed Illinois landscape to the devastation in Vietnam.

Rebel Women: The Great Art Fight Back Trailer (2018)

22 June 2018

Out of the tumult and fervour of the late 1960s emerged a generation of artists who set out to start a revolution.

Art Is Reactionary Trailer (1987)

12 April 1987

Art Is Reactionary is the 10-minute video recording of a performance by Carolee Schneemann dating from 1987.

Mysteries of the Pussies Trailer (2010)

08 April 2010

For this performative/lecture, Schneemann invited Teija Lammi, museum librarian at the Porin Taidemuseo in Pori, Finland, to be an improvisatory participant.

Site Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.

Americana I Ching Apple Pie Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972.

Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)

06 August 1997

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.

Meat Joy Trailer (1964)

29 May 1964

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap.

Plumb Line Trailer (1971)

08 July 1971

The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a streaming montage of disruptive permutations: 8 mm is printed as 16 mm, moving images freeze, frames recur and dissolve until the film bursts into flames, consuming its own substance.

Catscan Trailer (1988)

15 April 1988

Catscan is a group performance within a chaotic density of projected images and office furniture, motivated by Egyptian funerary rituals of mourning, grief and spirits of the dead.

Fuses Trailer (1967)

31 December 1967

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

Red News Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

RED NEWS (1962-67) considers the interplay between media, entertainment, and violence. "I also had Red News simultaneously, that magical little film that I also found mystically by closing my eyes and putting my hands up in front of a whole wall of 16mm films and I just pulled it and it was this perfectly remarkable compendium of disasters, a little feature that they showed at contemporary movies, Movietone or something, and it was just one disaster after another.

Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery) Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

Eight performers, suspended from ropes, move to a score of randomized encounter. Schneemann writes that this "kinetic theatre" work was "conceived as an aerial event with ropes rigged across the canal at San Marco.

Times For Trailer (1970)

15 September 1970

An unfulfilled man renders himself to the unrealized sensuality of four women. In his drifting search, he fails and fades in the same loneliness as the women.

Cat's Cradle Trailer (1959)

01 January 1959

Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up.

Snows Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

This is a newly restored version of documentation of the 1967 group performance Snows, which was built out of Schneemann's outrage and sorrows over the atrocities of the Vietnam War.

Viet Flakes Trailer (1967)

21 January 1967

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

Infinity Kisses - The Movie Trailer (2009)

04 February 2009

Infinity Kisses - The Movie completes Schneemann's exploration of human and feline sensual communication.

Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus Trailer (1989)

31 March 1989

A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the "Internationale Situationniste," "Cobra," "Spur," and "Wiener Gruppe" groups in Europe, and moving on to the international Happening and Fluxus movements, including the Viennese Actionists, and from 1970 onward to international Body and Performance Art, which also encompassed media art—film and video—the documentary presents film and photographic material from these art movements.

Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ) Trailer (1966)

06 June 1966

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 of randomized encounter on layers of rigged ropes and pulleys.

Body Collage Trailer (1967)

29 March 1967

Body Collage is a visceral "movement-event" from 1967, in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses, and then runs, leaps, falls into and rolls through shreds of white printer's paper, creating a physicalized corporal collage.

Kitch's Last Meal Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Schneemann’s cat, Kitch, who was featured in works such as Fuses, was a major figure in Schneemann’s work for almost twenty years.

Muñecos (Have a baby) Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

The Super 8mm film “Muñecos” (1972) — shot by the artist, Leopoldo Maler and Carolee Schneemann — combines recordings of a happening by Hirsch that took place in three cities: in Buenos Aires, London, and New York.

Oh, the Marquise de Sade... Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

About the relationship between a man and a woman.

America Is Not Ready for This Trailer (2012)

30 November 2012

The tradition of modernism and neo-avant-garde are faced in the project, in which Radziszewski is confronting both – Polish and Western – narratives of art history.