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3 itemsThree by Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway is best known for the films that followed his 1982 arthouse breakthrough "The Draughtsman’s Contract," and this series includes three of Greenaway’s playful, outlandish, and inventive features.
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3 itemsThree by Shirley Clarke
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Dance was Shirley Clarke’s first creative outlet of choice, and even after she discovered a new vocation in cinema she would continue to think in terms of the expressive possibilities of rhythm, choreography, and free movement. A standout in the overwhelmingly male New American Cinema Group that ...
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6 itemsThe Short Films of Ken Jacobs
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This selection of Ken Jacob's early works, filmed on the Lower East Side not far from Metrograph's location at 7 Ludlow Street, offers a glimpse into the burgeoning American Underground of the 1960s, featuring characters including Jack Smith, and into the mind one of the most wildly creative and ...
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3 itemsRecent Ferrara
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After years of increasing infamy and films going without US distribution, Abel Ferrara, working from Rome, has experienced a comeback over the last decade that’s encompassed a MoMA retrospective and some of his finest filmmaking, including the three film portraits found here. Pasolini provocative...
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A Zed And Two Noughts
Directed by Peter Greenaway | 115 mins | 1985
After a freak accident involving a swan leaves two women dead and a third—Andrea Ferréol’s Alba—with just one leg, the twin zoologist widowers of the deceased become obsessed with decomposition, experimenting on animals and crafting time-lapse films o... -
The Draughtsman's Contract
Directed by Peter Greenaway | 104 mins | 1982
Greenaway’s 1982 arthouse breakthrough, a 17th-century murder mystery in which an aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch her husband’s seemingly idyllic property while he is away—in excha... -
The Falls
Directed by Peter Greenaway | 239 mins | 1980
Greenaway’s first feature, an epic mock documentary in 92 parts that catalogs the aftermath of a mysterious “Violent Unknown Event” that has killed many people, and left survivors suffering from symptoms including strange dreams and mutations into bir... -
The Connection
Directed by Shirley Clarke | 110 mins | 1961
“Shirley Clarke’s The Connection based on and adapted by Jack Gelber is a film way ahead of its time. Arguably the first film to use the “found footage” trope to tell a fictional story. This film blew my mind when I first saw it, the direction and the ... -
Portrait of Jason
Directed by Shirley Clarke | 107 mins | 1967
A distillation of a single 12-hour interview in a room at the Chelsea Hotel with the charismatic Jason Holliday (“real” name Aaron Payne), a gay, African American cabaret dancer, part-time hustler, and full-time raconteur, Portrait of Jason grows from ... -
Ornette: Made in America
Directed by Shirley Clarke | 85 mins | 1985
“Discovering the work of filmmaker and the Film-Makers' Cooperative co-founder, Shirley Clarke made me aware of the wide range of cinema’s possibilities. This 1985 documentary shot in collaboration with the late Ornette Coleman, using a diverse array of... -
Pasolini
Directed by Abel Ferrara | 87 mins | 2014
The quotidian Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the 50-year-old filmmaker, writer, and public intellectual in a lovely, haunting bricolage that includes text from... -
Tommaso
Directed by Abel Ferrara | 115 mins | 2019
A warts-and-all semi-self-portrait of an ex-alcoholic artist in exile, Tommaso stars Willem Dafoe in the title role as an American acting coach living in Rome, dividing his time between teaching classes, attending AA meetings, and getting into increasing... -
The Projectionist
Directed by Abel Ferrara | 81 mins | 2019
Ferrara’s fond, often funny portrait of Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who got his start in movie houses working in the Times Square porno theaters in the 1970s and has held on into the 21st century as an independent exhibitor in spite of ov... -
Orchard Street
Directed by Ken Jacobs | 27 mins | 1955
Ken Jacobs documents the tradition of eager haggling and bargain hunting that once took place on the Lower East Side commercial thoroughfare of the title. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one of the... -
Window
Directed by Ken Jacobs | 12 mins | 1964
Jacobs, always interested in experiments in perception, uses his camera to contemplate the frame of a window and the exterior beyond, as he does conducting a scintillating experiment involving lenses and screens. Screening as part of a selection of five exp... -
Little Stabs at Happiness
Directed by Ken Jacobs | 15 m ins | 1963
A collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one of the most wildly creative and influential film artists and teachers in the history of the m... -
Blonde Cobra
Directed by Ken Jacobs | 34 mins | 1963
In Blonde Cobra, dubbed “the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema” by Jonas Mekas, Jacobs turns his camera on fellow underground icon Jack Smith. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one of the most wildl... -
The Whirled
Directed by Ken Jacobs | 19 mins | 2007
A collection of smaller silent segments by Brooklyn-born experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, made between 1956 and ’63. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one of the most wildly creative and influentia...
