“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it. The humor is tenderly black. Burckhardt's fusion of documentary-type photography with fairytale storyline is nearer Keystone than avant-garde with its...
"Fat Feet", eight months in production, is a pop-art view of life in the big city, complete with a fire-fighting episode and various street scenes. Three dimensional figures and real actors were shot by Grooms both on location and within sets.
" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy. The film traces the construction of two craven images made in the likeness of myself by Grooms and...
A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realises he must either break out or break down.
An animated short about a man who finds a cat that turns into a lion. The lion becomes a famous singer who is kidnapped by gangsters. Uses animated cutouts.
Red Grooms' retelling of the classic children's story. Shot by the artist Rudy Burckhardt, it stars Mr. Grooms’s daughter, Saskia, and other friends and family members.
Grooms' sculptural masterpiece "Ruckus Manhattan" took thirteen months to contruct. It was originally meant to encompass all of Manhattan Island up to the Cloisters, but time and money ran out of Midtown Manhattan. The work was desinged for 88 glass-enclosed space with thirty-foot high ceilings. To...
A stable full of ruckus films to shorten your program. Including: WASHINGTON'S WIG WHAMMED, BEFORE AN AFTER, THE BIG SNEEZE, MAN OR MOUSE, SPAGHETTI TROUBLE.–R. G.
Artist Red Grooms and photographer Rudy Burckhardt’s playful homage to George Melies’ “Trip To The Moon” features exaggerated set designs, costumes and larger than life characters.
