Michael Almereyda Movies

Almereyda’s reading of Kenneth Koch’s “To the Unknown” transforms footage of the everyday into a moving tribute to one of the...

In 1967, strait-laced exploitation movie king Roger Corman embarks on a life-changing attempt to capture the psychedelic world of LSD on film by...

Men and women search for intimacy and meaning in their lives.

The writings and movie memories of renowned poet John Ashbery are refracted in a kaleidoscope of film clips that open up an illuminating dialogue...

A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king.

Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."

One year after Hurricane Katrina, troubles arise for a surgeon who, despite remarrying his ex-wife and starting his life anew, becomes reacquainted...

Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.

Lee and Mae are a couple trying to work out their differences. As Mae struggles with memories of a former flame, Lee, who is a writer, works through...

A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the 'fiercely independent' residents of a remote English fishing village.

Two young boys discuss their favorite movies and the nature of "passive resistance" while playing a video game.

Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook, a collection of brief episodes captured during a decade of travel. The...

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord.

Commissioned by Chuck Workman and excerpted in his What is Cinema (2014). Never screened in public.

André Breton, the great leader of the surrealist revolution, is still alive and he is in New York! Filmed with Almereyda's favourite...

John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive...

Four short films were created in honor of artist residency program MacDowell's Centennial in 2007. Four artists, competitively selected from among...