Larry Gottheim Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1973
    Horizons

    Horizons

    Horizons

    8.51973HD

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

    Horizons
  • 2024
    A Private Room

    A Private Room

    A Private Room

    02024HD

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

    A Private Room
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1971
    Harmonica

    Harmonica

    Harmonica

    6.51971HD

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

    Harmonica
  • 1987
    The Red Thread

    The Red Thread

    The Red Thread

    61987HD

    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...

    The Red Thread
  • 1976
    Mouches Volantes

    Mouches Volantes

    Mouches Volantes

    71976HD

    The second in Larry Gottheim's ELECTIVE AFFINITIES cycle, MOUCHES VOLANTES is, in the filmmaker's own words, "a celebration of elusive relationships"...

    Mouches Volantes
  • 1971
    Barn Rushes

    Barn Rushes

    Barn Rushes

    6.21971HD

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

    Barn Rushes
  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    71978HD

    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...

    Four Shadows
  • 1970
    Fog Line

    Fog Line

    Fog Line

    6.31970HD

    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...

    Fog Line
  • 1987
    Mnemosyne Mother of Muses

    Mnemosyne Mother of Muses

    Mnemosyne Mother of Muses

    7.31987HD

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

    Mnemosyne Mother of Muses
  • 1989
    Machete Gillette... Mama

    Machete Gillette... Mama

    Machete Gillette... Mama

    61989HD

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

    Machete Gillette... Mama
  • 1983
    Natural Selection

    Natural Selection

    Natural Selection

    61983HD

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

    Natural Selection
  • 1981
    Tree of Knowledge

    Tree of Knowledge

    Tree of Knowledge

    81981HD

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

    Tree of Knowledge
  • 1987
    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

    Video Album 5: The Thursday People

    01987HD

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

    Video Album 5: The Thursday People
  • 1971
    Thought

    Thought

    Thought

    01971HD

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

    Thought
  • 2022
    Entanglement

    Entanglement

    Entanglement

    02022HD

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

    Entanglement
  • 1971
    Doorway

    Doorway

    Doorway

    61971HD

    A serene winterscape glides, as in a dream, across the screen, from darkness to darkness...Vision shivers, hesitates ever so slightly to savor, to...

    Doorway
  • 1969
    Blues

    Blues

    Blues

    61969HD

    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...

    Blues
  • 2019
    Knot/Not

    Knot/Not

    Knot/Not

    82019HD

    Two souls search for one another from opposite ends of history, with music by the Catalan artist Eli Ningú.

    Knot/Not