Shirley Clarke

Shirley Clarke

Directing 1919-10-02 New York City, New York, USA

A major figure of the American avant garde, Shirley Brimberg Clarke (1919-1997) was born into privilege as the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants who made their fortune in manufacturing. Rebelling against a repressive bourgeois upbringing, Clarke turned first to dance, and later film and video, to express her distinctive vision of the world. Moving freely across genres and media throughout her career (and often within a single work), Clarke’s cinema explores the porous boundaries between narrative and documentary filmmaking, and film and other media, such as painting, dance, performance and video. Her 1960s features The Connection (1961), The Cool World (1963) and Portrait of Jason (1967), for which she is arguably best remembered, address issues of urban alienation, poverty, addiction and racism, focusing on lives lived at the margins of American society. Fearless in both her personal and creative life, Clarke produced a body of work that is as formally innovative as it is rooted in social protest. Clarke initially trained as a dancer, immersing herself in New York’s vibrant post-war avant-garde dance scene. Although her dance career never quite earned her the critical acclaim she’d hoped for, it had a lasting impact on her subsequent filmmaking and video work, informing an interest in how movement is recorded formally, while introducing her to key avant-garde dancers and choreographers. Source: https://denniscooperblog.com/shirley-clarke-day-2/

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1999 second alien mother / MIB soldier
1997 Self
1997 Self
1986 Self (archive footage)
1986 Director
1986 Editor
1982 Director
1982 Editor
1981 Director
1980 Director
1977 Director
1976 Self
1972 Director
1971 Director
1971 Director
1971 Director
1970 Shirley Clarke
1969 Shirley
1968 Self
1968 Self
1967 Interviewer (voice)
1967
1967 Director
1967 Director
1967 Editor
1967 Producer
1967 Director
1966 Self
1963 Director
1963 Writer
1963 Editor
1962 Director
1962 Editor
1960 Director
1960 Dialogue
1959 Director
1959 Editor
1959 Producer
1958 Director
1958 Director
1958 Director
1958 Producer
1958 Director of Photography
1958 Producer
1958 Cinematography
1956 Director
1956 Camera Operator
1956 Editor
1955 Director
1955 Camera Operator
1955 Editor
1954 Director
1953 Director
1953 Editor
1951 Stand In
1943 Herself