Dick Higgins Movies

"INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain...

"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."

On March 24, 1979, The Kitchen presented a two-part program dedicated to the work of various Fluxus artists. The programming began with the premiere...

Featuring home movie footage shot by Higgins and other material derived from his father, MEN & WOMEN & BELLS includes the recurring sound of the...

The scenario for what might have been quite a beautiful films is projected as a text. In between the blocks of text, two small girls romp, as if from...

This film belongs to Higgins' 'hard series', meaning that the formal structure is relatively inflexible. The colors shift from the normal to their...

A double murder is committed–presumably. A sleepwalker is unaware where she is going or what the consequences of her actions...

A satire on business. We see a distinguished business man speaking gibberish, telephone ploes being ripped down to make room for beautiful farmlands,...

An anti-semantic love story about a marvelous part of New York City and the people who lived there as the city is destroyed.