Rudy Burckhardt

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

Elliott Carter’s composition of the same title inspired Rudy Burckhardt, in collaboration with Yvonne Jacquette, to photograph this collage-style ...

A collage film featuring dual narrations of Ashbery’s eponymous poem of the same name, with both Ashbery and Burckhardt appearing in in front of ...

“A diary or collage film, ranging from snow in the Catskills, with stop-overs in Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco, to Easter in New ...

Poems by John Ashbery; with performances by Douglas Dunn and Susan Blankenson, Yoshiko Chuma. “A grand synthesis of the poetic free ...

Images to accompany the lines of a poem by John Ashbery. “Rudy Burckhardt’s film is a brilliant extension of my poem, perhaps the ...

“R. B.’s new film is a magic dream, airy and clear. Everything you see is a fact, firm and distinct at the moment you are seeing it, ...

“This filmic slice of life coalesces into an ethnographic view of a possible future: the city as a constantly bubbling, delirious ...

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

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