Michael Almereyda Movies

Loosely based on a section of Mikhail Lermontov's classic Russian novel of the same title, the film involves a displaced cowboy (played by Kevin...

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 gambler comes to live with his sister and discovers his young nephew can predict the winner of horse races by riding on his rocking horse.

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

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

A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord.

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg...

Interview with director Wim Wenders conducted and edited by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

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

In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding...

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

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

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

A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the 'fiercely independent' residents of a remote English fishing village.

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

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

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...