Larry Gottheim Movies
- 1973

Horizons
Horizons8.51973HD
Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...
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- 1997

Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....
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- 1985

Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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- 1978

Four Shadows
Four Shadows71978HD
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...
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- 2019

Knot/Not
Knot/Not82019HD
Two souls search for one another from opposite ends of history, with music by the Catalan artist Eli Ningú.
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- 1987

Mnemosyne Mother of Muses
Mnemosyne Mother of Muses7.31987HD
Christened for the Greek mythological personification of human memory, MNEMOSYNE, MOTHER OF MUSES is Larry Gottheim's facsimile edition of how one...
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- 1971

Harmonica
Harmonica61971HD
Arguably Larry Gottheim’s most exuberant experiment in the single-shot, single-roll format (and his first with a soundtrack), HARMONICA trains...
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- 1981

Tree of Knowledge
Tree of Knowledge81981HD
It started with filming the tree. Something was released in that manner of filming seemingly farthest removed from the procedure of the early films....
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- 1976

Mouches Volantes
Mouches Volantes71976HD
The second in Larry Gottheim's ELECTIVE AFFINITIES cycle, MOUCHES VOLANTES is, in the filmmaker's own words, "a celebration of elusive relationships"...
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- 1969

ALA
ALA51969HD
Documents Harpur College's Afro-Latin Alliance.
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- 2012

The Opening
The Opening02012HD
An early cut of the footage seen in Chants and Dances for Hand.
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- 1971

Doorway
Doorway61971HD
A serene winterscape glides, as in a dream, across the screen, from darkness to darkness...Vision shivers, hesitates ever so slightly to savor, to...
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- 1983

Natural Selection
Natural Selection61983HD
From student films, with additional material shot in New Mexico.
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- 2022

Entanglement
Entanglement02022HD
An exhilarating cinematic train ride at the speed of sound through a quantum landscape. Music. The dance of death. Do you remember?
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- 1987

Video Album 5: The Thursday People
Video Album 5: The Thursday People01987HD
The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with...
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- 2025

Up Close
Up Close02025HD
Created for Close-Up Cinema's 20th Anniversary
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- 1971

Thought
Thought01971HD
In 1971 it seemed a formal companion to DOORWAY, bringing out further possibilities of small movements within the format of a continuous shot. In...
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- 1991

Your Television Traveler
Your Television Traveler61991HD
A cosmic voyage into hidden knowledge.
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- 1969

Blues
Blues61969HD
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...
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- 1970

Fog Line
Fog Line6.31970HD
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...
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