Rudy Burckhardt Film Screening

Rudy Burckhardt made just over a hundred films in his lifetime, most on his own, some in collaboration with other artists, poets or dancers. Some films are collage-like and non narrative, while others are comedic farces. Rudy used to show films to friends at various informal spots in Maine like grange halls and his family thought it would be great, in this spirit, to set up screenings in various spots around Maine this summer. Waterfall Arts is proud to present 4 of Rudy's films in conjunction with our 25th Anniversary celebration.

"In 1937 I bought a secondhand 16-millimeter movie camera for 17 dollars. There were no film schools then, so I began filming the same things I had been photographing in the streets of New York. When I filmed people moving in the streets of Midtown, I let them invent their own choreography in front of my camera. More recently, however, at an advanced age, I believe my films have at last become avant-garde. Without a plan I collect scenes and images wherever I happen to be, which is mostly New York or rural Maine in the summer"—Rudy Burckhardt

Montgomery Alabama 1941, 4 minutes, color, piano by Earl Hines l Caterpillar 1973, 6 minutes, color, bird sounds recorded by Jacob Burckhardt; City Pasture 1974, 40 minutes, color, sound, texts by Edwin Denby, Kenneth Koch, Ron Padgett, and Trevor Winkfield; Lurk 1964, 36 minutes, black and white, sound, with Edwin Denby, Red Grooms, and Mimi Gross.

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