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Richard Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer, founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
Total trailers found: 21
22 February 1986
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
14 July 2004
Written by legendary theater artist, Richard Foreman, Planet Earth: Dreams revolves around the desire to escape -- not to a Dream world -- but to a mode of consciousness in which one is able to function in real life with the same mental freedom the dream mind has available in the realm of sleep.
25 November 1981
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her.
11 April 2007
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist.
01 January 2009
An opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman
29 October 1987
An architect, a security chief, a parapsychologist and an exorcist face evil in a Barcelona skyscraper.
01 January 1967
"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera.
20 October 2016
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
06 October 2012
Since the late 1960s, the almost annual productions of Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater have been among New York’s artistic highlights.
01 January 1978
Avant garde film from 1978, by playwright and filmmaker Richard Foreman.
18 June 2005
"The theater is about sex." At least according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater.
01 January 1976
A "young woman who finds herself surrounded by the relics of Western culture" is the subject of Richard Foreman's formal tableaux.
01 January 1989
In this “video play”, which was shown on WGBH/WNET’s series, “New Television”, playwright/director Richard Foreman explores his relationship with actors, and examines the impact of William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” – and in particular the character of Quentin Compson – on his work.
15 February 2018
Experimental documentary in which Foreman presents his way of looking at different issues.
26 September 2006
What to Wear is a raucous, bitingly funny post-rock opera from avant-garde theater icon Richard Foreman and celebrated composer Michael Gordon.
01 March 1968
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols.
02 May 2018
The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964.
01 January 2011
A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.
01 January 1979
Foreman spent the early months of 1979 rehearsing a play called Madness and Tranquility (My Head Was a Sledgehammer), which he abruptly cancelled very shortly before its scheduled opening.
01 January 1977
Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to shoot this whiplash-inducing single-frame study of a dynamic play filled with frantic action, full frontal nudity, and so much more.
