Yvonne Rainer Movies

Adam Pendleton’s Just Back From Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer is the third in a series of video portraits, following My Education: A...

Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and...

"Carriage Discreteness" is a 1966 performance piece by Yvonne Rainer, presented as part of the "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" event.

First performed in 1966, Trio A consists of an approximately five-minute sequence of discrete movements that, with the exception of walking, are...

Ten minutes in an enormous chicken coop. Camerawork by Roy Levin.

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist...

A blond woman (Susan Marshall) in white pants and shirt interacts with a moving round object and the camera. Camerawork by Phill Niblock.

The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a...

A volleyball is rolled into the frame and comes to rest. Two legs in sneakers, seen from the knees down, enter the frame and stand beside it. Cut to...

"For me Rainer Variations is a hybrid: a weave of impressionistic portrait, found footage construction, and video sampler. Aside from formal issues,...