Carolee Schneemann Movies

  • 1991
    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

    Ask the Goddess

    01991HD

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

    Ask the Goddess
  • 1993
    Four Recent Installations

    Four Recent Installations

    Four Recent Installations

    11993HD

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

    Four Recent Installations
  • 2010
    Mysteries of the Pussies

    Mysteries of the Pussies

    Mysteries of the Pussies

    02010HD

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

    Mysteries of the Pussies
  • 1995
    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    Interior Scroll — The Cave

    01995HD

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

    Interior Scroll — The Cave
  • 2007
    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie

    02007HD

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

    Americana I Ching Apple Pie
  • 1966
    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)

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

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

    01966HD

    Eight performers, suspended from ropes, move to a score of randomized encounter. Schneemann writes that this "kinetic theatre" work was "conceived as...

    Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)
  • 1987
    Art Is Reactionary

    Art Is Reactionary

    Art Is Reactionary

    01987HD

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

    Art Is Reactionary
  • 1989
    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...

    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...

    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...

    01989HD

    About the relationship between a man and a woman.

    Oh, the Marquise de Sade...
  • 1998
    Women of Vision

    Women of Vision

    Women of Vision

    11998HD

    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...

    Women of Vision
  • 1983
    Souvenir of Lebanon

    Souvenir of Lebanon

    Souvenir of Lebanon

    01983HD

    Writes Schneemann: "Souvenir of Lebanon follows a long video pan through destroyed Palestinian and Lebanese villages. In 1982-83, Israeli ceaseless...

    Souvenir of Lebanon