Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann, a groundbreaking performance and multidisciplinary artist, has used film and video since the 1960s. Shattering taboos and redefining the notion of the erotic, she confronts sexuality, gender, and the social construction of the female body. Her seminal performances of the 1970s were as transgressive as they were influential. Schneemann continues to provoke, as she explores female sexuality in relation to art-making, ritual, and culture.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.302 |
| Birthday | 1939-10-12 |
| Place of Birth | Fox Chase/ Burholme, PA |
| Also Known As |
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
0/0
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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Home Movies 1971-81
1967
Fuses
5.8/19
A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kit...
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Fuses
1979
Split Decision
10/1
This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questio...
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Split Decision
1957
Loving
0/0
In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows an...
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Loving
2010
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
4.7/15
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing politic...
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!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
1964
Meat Joy
6.6/5
"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, r...
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Meat Joy
2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
5.7/6
Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acqua...
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Sleepless Nights Stories
1977
ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards
0/0
Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas. In ABC - We print anything...
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ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards
1991
Ask the Goddess
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Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from ca...
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Ask the Goddess
2007
Americana I Ching Apple Pie
0/0
Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972. Unfortunately, the original foot...
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Americana I Ching Apple Pie
1967
Grimace
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Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the cam...
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Grimace
1976
Up To and Including Her Limits
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Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and dra...
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Up To and Including Her Limits
1998
Women of Vision
1/1
Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the...
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Women of Vision
1969
Heads
0/0
Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
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Heads
2015
Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
5/4
She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual...
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Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
1997
Birth of a Nation
6.3/3
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Birth of a Nation
1964
Site
6/1
Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.
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Site
2018
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
5.6/5
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the mo...
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Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
1970
Times For
7/1
A sexually frustrated man complies with the emotional and erotic wishes of four women, but afterwards he is left even lonelier than before.
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Times For
2011
Maya Deren's Sink
4.5/2
Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit o...
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Maya Deren's Sink
1966
No. 4
2.6/18
This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.
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No. 4
1971
Plumb Line
5.8/5
The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a streamin...
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Plumb Line
2020
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
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A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, r...
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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
1959
Cat's Cradle
5.8/37
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with...
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Cat's Cradle
2012
Emma's Dilemma
1/1
Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images and essences...
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Emma's Dilemma
2015
Masculinity/Femininity
0/0
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super 8...
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Masculinity/Femininity
2018
Rebel Women: The Great Art Fight Back
0/0
Out of the tumult and fervour of the late 1960s emerged a generation of artists who set out to start a revolution. As women around the world joined fo...
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