Shirley Clarke
Birth:
Oct. 2, 1919
Death:
Sept. 23, 1997
Official Website:
None
Major Works:
Ornette: Made in America (1985)
Portrait of Jason (1967)
The Cool World (1964)
Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With the World (1963)
The Connection (1962)
Bridges-Go-Round (1958)
A Moment in Love (1957)
Bullfight (1955)
Dance in the Sun (1953)
Years Working:
1953 — 1959
Notes:
Was initially a choreographer who started out making short dance films.
Once had a disastrous meeting with Roger Corman, who was unaware that she was an award-winning filmmaker.
Taught at UCLA from ’75 to ’83.
1989: Recipient of AFI’s Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award.
Online Resources:
IMDB: Profile
Museum of the Moving Image: Profile
The Early Video Project: Interview
AfterImage: Obituary
Film Books About Shirley Clarke:
An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1967) (Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin and Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver) (Indexed on p. 300.)
Video:
Shirley Clarke: A Retrospective
[...] Shirley Clarke was an early force in the New American Cinema movement back in the 1960s, directing several underground feature films and shorts. For this event, there will be a screening of her short experimental film Bridges-Go-Round, plus the feature-length documentary Shirley Clarke in Our Time, directed by Donna Cameron, an associate of Clarke’s in the late ’80s. [...]
[...] list is Marie Menken. A bit strangely, I think, is that Renan didn’t include Maya Deren nor Shirley Clarke. Yes, Deren had been dead for many years, but Ron Rice had also passed away and he made the cut. [...]
[...] Scary Time (1960), directed by Shirley Clarke and Robert Hughes, was sponsored by UNICEF and combines images of American children on Halloween [...]
[...] Baillie Charles Burnett T. Minh-ha Trinh1990 Les Blank Ernie Gehr Edin Velez1989 James Broughton Shirley Clarke Joan Jonas1988 Bruce Conner Yvonne Rainer Bill Viola1987 Dara Birnbaum Robert Breer Ed [...]
[...] Treasures IV box set includes films by such underground luminaries Bruce Baillie, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Ken Jacobs, George Kuchar, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Andy Warhol and many more. In the [...]