Yvonne Rainer Movies

  • 2013
    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    6.22013HD

    Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

    What Is Cinema?
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.31978HD

    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

    Cinématon
  • 1980
    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    91980HD

    An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

    Journeys from Berlin/1971
  • 1996
    MURDER and murder

    MURDER and murder

    MURDER and murder

    5.11996HD

    Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the...

    MURDER and murder
  • 1976
    Kristina Talking Pictures

    Kristina Talking Pictures

    Kristina Talking Pictures

    41976HD

    Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist...

    Kristina Talking Pictures
  • 1975
    What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew

    51975HD

    The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a...

    What Maisie Knew
  • 1974
    Film About a Woman Who…

    Film About a Woman Who…

    Film About a Woman Who…

    51974HD

    Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story...

    Film About a Woman Who…
  • 1972
    Lives of Performers

    Lives of Performers

    Lives of Performers

    5.31972HD

    Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and...

    Lives of Performers
  • 2015
    Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer

    Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer

    Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer

    02015HD

    Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer chronicles the defiant, uncompromising, and highly influential ideas of postmodern choreographer and...

    Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer
  • 1978
    Madame X - An Absolute Ruler

    Madame X - An Absolute Ruler

    Madame X - An Absolute Ruler

    41978HD

    The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising "gold, love and adventure" to all...

    Madame X - An Absolute Ruler
  • 1990
    Privilege

    Privilege

    Privilege

    4.41990HD

    Privilege is an intelligently conceived, boldly anarchic, and wickedly insightful exposition on the culturally ingrained and socially divisive...

    Privilege
  • 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
  • 1978
    Trio A

    Trio A

    Trio A

    01978HD

    First performed in 1966, Trio A consists of an approximately five-minute sequence of discrete movements that, with the exception of walking, are...

    Trio A
  • 1985
    The Man Who Envied Women

    The Man Who Envied Women

    The Man Who Envied Women

    5.21985HD

    A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

    The Man Who Envied Women
  • 1967
    Volleyball (Foot Film)

    Volleyball (Foot Film)

    Volleyball (Foot Film)

    3.81967HD

    A volleyball is rolled into the frame and comes to rest. Two legs in sneakers, seen from the knees down, enter the frame and stand beside it. Cut to...

    Volleyball (Foot Film)
  • 1978
    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    81978HD

    Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
  • 1970
    Trio A with Flags

    Trio A with Flags

    Trio A with Flags

    01970HD

    Judson Memorial Church on the occasion of the People’s Flag Show, 1970. Film by Rudi Stern, John Reilly. Performers: David Gordon, Nancy Green,...

    Trio A with Flags
  • 1969
    Line

    Line

    Line

    01969HD

    A blond woman (Susan Marshall) in white pants and shirt interacts with a moving round object and the camera. Camerawork by Phill Niblock.

    Line
  • 2002
    Rainer Variations

    Rainer Variations

    Rainer Variations

    02002HD

    "For me Rainer Variations is a hybrid: a weave of impressionistic portrait, found footage construction, and video sampler. Aside from formal issues,...

    Rainer Variations
  • 1968
    Trio Film

    Trio Film

    Trio Film

    01968HD

    Two nudes, a man and a woman, interact with each other and a large balloon in a white living room. Performed by Steve Paxton and Becky Arnold....

    Trio Film