Charles Atlas

In 2006 ANOHNI and the Johnsons and Charles Atlas took their collaborative performance TURNING to major cities in Europe. This documentary film exp...

16 de nov. de 2012

Welcome to the over-the-top, extravagant world of Leigh Bowery, a key figure in New Romanticism and London nightlife in the 1980s. With his bizarre...

13 de abr. de 2002

“Westbeth” was Cunningham’s first video collaboration with Charles Atlas, and the first video project to be made at the Merce Cunningham Dance Stud...

14 de fev. de 1975

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

16 de dez. de 2001

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height ...

06 de ago. de 1988

A fictionalized portrait of the British dancer and choreographer Michael Clark, depicting a day in his life as he and his company prepare for a per...

21 de mai. de 1986

Gay erotica from director Charles Atlas.

01 de dez. de 1998

John Cage’s original concept of Ocean, in 1991, was for a dance to be performed in a circular space, with the audience surrounding the dancers, and...

01 de jan. de 2010

Lady Bunny at the end of the world.

13 de mai. de 2017

New York City 1988. Raging homophobia. A killer on the loose. Disco dancing till dawn. Performers struggle to survive. Delilah seduces Samson in so...

01 de jan. de 1991

Check Your Body at the Door is about the remarkable underground House dancing in NYC's golden decade - the 1990s.

01 de jan. de 2012

Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section, “Blue Studio: Five Seg...

01 de jan. de 1978

The three short, low-tech works in this compilation celebrate downtown New York nightlife at the beginning of the 1990's. Set in a New York Meat Ma...

01 de jan. de 1991

The Michael Clark Dance Group perform to the music of T.Rex, Chopin, the Beatles and the Velvet Underground.

01 de jan. de 1989

A video portrait of the legendary late performance artist, fashion designer and nightlife icon Leigh Bowery. Atlas's camera follows Bowery as he fl...

07 de set. de 1999

Charles Atlas has been a pioneering figure in film and video for over four decades. Atlas has extended the limits of his medium, forging new territ...

01 de jan. de 2015

Atlas' 2013 film Exchange is based on the 1978 dance piece of the same name by legendary dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham. Atlas created the n...

The collaboration between the two artists began in 1984 when the young dancer, Clark, performed in two single-channel films by Atlas: Parafango and...

07 de out. de 2020

Coast Zone […] explores the use of deep-focus, contrasting background figures (often in motion) with those in the foreground (sometimes in extreme ...

07 de abr. de 1984

In this futuristic danse macabre, Charles Atlas creates a fully realized cyber-gothic world, rife with both erotic and physical danger. We follow o...

01 de jan. de 1994

We Interrupt This Program (1991) was a live television broadcast presented by The Kitchen in association with Visual AIDS for Day Without Art 1991....

01 de dez. de 1991

Based on his own video documentation, Atlas constructs a delirious montage of New York club performances from the late 1990s. Impersonators of pop-...

28 de dez. de 1999

The décor for BIPED is an exploration into the possibilities of motion capture technology. The movements (but not the physical appearances) of the ...

01 de jan. de 1983