Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast
Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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9m 8s
Directed by Carolee Schneemann | 9 mins | 1963
In her first video work, Schneemann crafts an impressionistic portrait of another fearlessly provocative multidisciplinary artist: the eponymous Ruggles, best known for his dissonant, ultramodernist compositions and his lacerating tongue. Blotches of hand-painted color illuminate his late-in-life ruminations on Christmas, his own work, and sex.
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