David Brooks Movies

The film springs from the night through the dawn to the daystar, following the adventures of the mind on the way.

David and Carolyn Brooks with friends. At Martha's Vineyard, on NYC bus, shooting at the beach, etc. "Was going to tape Carolyn and my first...

David and Carolyn Brooks and friends. At Martha’s Vineyard, on NYC bus, shooting at the beach, etc (Part One). Walking in woods, at picnic, in...

David and Carolyn Brooks and friends. At Tibetan seminar, prison, Chandler Moore's house, etc. "Was going to tape Carolyn and my first conversation...

David and Carolyn Brooks and friends. Walking in woods, at picnic, in VW bus, etc. "Was going to tape Carolyn and my first conversation in about 5...

“Fishing/boys and father/pure/simple/straight forward” – Carolyn Brooks

"Brooks edited this footage but never printed it in his lifetime. While we cannot know for sure the true origins of, or intentions for, this...

David Brooks’s black & white portrait of fabled underground filmmaker and collagist Jerry Jofen.

"In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they...

Reels from 1963 - 1966 compiled from loose footage and fragments shortly after Brooks's death by Jonas Mekas and Carolyn Brooks.

Reels from 1966 - 1969 compiled from loose footage and fragments shortly after Brooks's death by Jonas Mekas and Carolyn Brooks.

Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every...

Locales: Nantucket, Kazakhstan, Grant’s Nepal, Colorado, Mt. Kearsange, Iowa, 7th Street. Door golden night room trees fire drip rain blue...

A non-narrative patchwork of images, light, music, conversation, news headlines, the passing of generations, and, ultimately, a journey from New York...

A mutual venture of a most inordinate sort. Vaguely a mistake, but fun at that.

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.