Larry Gottheim Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

"A film about transformations. It was made with students from one of my seminars. We attempt to deconstruct a poem’s language by playing it...

A fixed camera companion to FOG LINE. Bright green leaves stripped from ears of corn, and later, the vibrant yellow ears placed steaming in the...

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

A cosmic voyage into hidden knowledge.