Dick Higgins Movies

  • 1966
    Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage)

    Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage)

    Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage)

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    "INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain...

    Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage)
  • 1979
    Flux-Concert

    Flux-Concert

    Flux-Concert

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    On March 24, 1979, The Kitchen presented a two-part program dedicated to the work of various Fluxus artists. The programming began with the premiere...

    Flux-Concert
  • 1966
    Dance

    Dance

    Dance

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    "Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."

    Dance
  • 1970
    Men & Women & Bells

    Men & Women & Bells

    Men & Women & Bells

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    Featuring home movie footage shot by Higgins and other material derived from his father, MEN & WOMEN & BELLS includes the recurring sound of the...

    Men & Women & Bells
  • 1968
    Scenario

    Scenario

    Scenario

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    The scenario for what might have been quite a beautiful films is projected as a text. In between the blocks of text, two small girls romp, as if from...

    Scenario
  • 1970
    Hank and Mary Without Apologies

    Hank and Mary Without Apologies

    Hank and Mary Without Apologies

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    This film belongs to Higgins' 'hard series', meaning that the formal structure is relatively inflexible. The colors shift from the normal to their...

    Hank and Mary Without Apologies
  • 1969
    Mysteries

    Mysteries

    Mysteries

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    A double murder is committed–presumably. A sleepwalker is unaware where she is going or what the consequences of her actions...

    Mysteries
  • 1962
    The End

    The End

    The End

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    A satire on business. We see a distinguished business man speaking gibberish, telephone ploes being ripped down to make room for beautiful farmlands,...

    The End
  • 1963
    The Flaming City

    The Flaming City

    The Flaming City

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    An anti-semantic love story about a marvelous part of New York City and the people who lived there as the city is destroyed.

    The Flaming City