Rudy Burckhardt Movies

  • 1999
    On Aesthetics

    On Aesthetics

    On Aesthetics

    101999HD

    Short film by Swiss-American film-maker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, featuring a poem by Kenneth Koch.

    On Aesthetics
  • 1956
    What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street

    What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street

    What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street

    01956HD

    Short film with sound by Rudy Burckhardt, assembled from the footage shot by Joseph Cornell for his own silent "Mulberry Street."

    What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street
  • 1971
    Inside Dope

    Inside Dope

    Inside Dope

    01971HD

    "A pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. Very funny and slightly sinister, like Red Skelton...

    Inside Dope
  • 1943
    Trinidad

    Trinidad

    Trinidad

    01943HD

    Rudy Burckhardt shot plenty of film while he was stationed in Trinidad with the Signal Corps in the early 1940s. This short film compiles some of the...

    Trinidad
  • 1985
    The Nude Pond

    The Nude Pond

    The Nude Pond

    01985HD

    Poems by John Ashbery; with performances by Douglas Dunn and Susan Blankenson, Yoshiko Chuma. "A grand synthesis of the poetic free association films...

    The Nude Pond
  • 1953
    Eastside Summer

    Eastside Summer

    Eastside Summer

    01953HD

    Rudy Burckhardt's color portrait of Manhattan's East Side strolls along at an easy pace befitting blue skies and Thelonious Monk's piano score. Where...

    Eastside Summer
  • 1983
    Indelible, Inedible

    Indelible, Inedible

    Indelible, Inedible

    01983HD

    Images to accompany the lines of a poem by John Ashbery. "Rudy Burckhardt's film is a brilliant extension of my poem, perhaps the film I might have...

    Indelible, Inedible
  • 1940
    The Uncle's Return

    The Uncle's Return

    The Uncle's Return

    01940HD

    Short film by Rudy Burckhardt.

    The Uncle's Return