Richard Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer, founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and announced a powerful new voice in the city' ...
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A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by. ...
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In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrai ...
Watch Now"The theater is about sex." At least according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater. THE ONTOLOGICAL COWBOY documents Foreman's invocation of the "manifest destiny" of the avant-garde theater, King Cowboy Rufus strolling dow ...
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A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas. ...
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Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas's first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it ...
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"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It's only love: therefore it can't harm you". Joyce Wieland. ...
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Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family. ...
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Since the late 1960s, the almost annual productions of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater have been among New York's artistic highlights. A legend of the avant-garde theater, Foreman is also a passionate film fan, whose taste ranges from Americ ...
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An opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman ...
Watch NowWritten by legendary theater artist, Richard Foreman, Planet Earth: Dreams revolves around the desire to escape -- not to a Dream world -- but to a mode of consciousness in which one is able to function in real life with the same mental freedom the dream m ...
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An architect, a security chief, a parapsychologist and an exorcist face evil in a Barcelona skyscraper. ...
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Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall. ...
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A "young woman who finds herself surrounded by the relics of Western culture" is the subject of Richard Foreman's formal tableaux. The narration centers on a young woman's struggle to find a relation between her body and her self as mediated by language. T ...
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