Larry Gottheim Movies

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line consists of a fixed shot of clearing fog in a valley in upstate New York where he lived and worked in the early...

Christened for the Greek mythological personification of human memory, MNEMOSYNE, MOTHER OF MUSES is Larry Gottheim's facsimile edition of how one...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

In 1971 it seemed a formal companion to DOORWAY, bringing out further possibilities of small movements within the format of a continuous shot. In...

"With characteristic wit and rigor, experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim here applies his impressionistic editing style to footage collected during...

The story of quantum Alice and quantum Bob. Words, and music.

It started with filming the tree. Something was released in that manner of filming seemingly farthest removed from the procedure of the early films....

Arguably Larry Gottheim’s most exuberant experiment in the single-shot, single-roll format (and his first with a soundtrack), HARMONICA trains...

"…elegant yet rustic in its simplicity of execution; tugged gently toward different sides of the set by hints of color and motion...

Mostly shot in San Francisco and Northern California, material filmed (using the camera almost as a p[r/a]inter, a means of shaping the visual world...

A bowl of blueberries in milk, changing light radiant on the berries and on the glazed bowl, the ever more radiant orb of milk transforming into...

From student films, with additional material shot in New Mexico.

A cosmic voyage into hidden knowledge.

Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...

"A film about transformations. It was made with students from one of my seminars. We attempt to deconstruct a poem’s language by playing it...

A fixed camera companion to FOG LINE. Bright green leaves stripped from ears of corn, and later, the vibrant yellow ears placed steaming in the...

An exhilarating cinematic train ride at the speed of sound through a quantum landscape. Music. The dance of death. Do you remember?

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with...