Marjorie Keller Movies

  • 1991
    Departure

    Departure

    Departure

    01991HD

    DEPARTURE is a film that was shot in 1976-77 during a year when I lost my job due to both cutbacks at the campus at which I taught and my involvement...

    Departure
  • 1979
    Six Windows

    Six Windows

    Six Windows

    81979HD

    “This film began as a view out six windows in a crescendo of evocation. Each window is a layer in a different style of representation. Each...

    Six Windows
  • 1988
    Private Parts

    Private Parts

    Private Parts

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    Working in the diaristic mode of lyrical cinema, Marjorie Keller arranges fleeting impressions of a summer vacation as pearls on a string. Her...

    Private Parts
  • 1974
    Objection

    Objection

    Objection

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    Begun as a document for insurance purposes, Objection catalogues the contents of a house. The soundtrack carries the voices and sounds of the family...

    Objection
  • 1991
    Herein

    Herein

    Herein

    51991HD

    HEREIN charts the movement from political activism to filmmaking through the metaphor of a dwelling. An FBI film obtained under the Freedom of...

    Herein
  • 1977
    Misconception

    Misconception

    Misconception

    01977HD

    MISCONCEPTION is composed of six parts that together chronicle the experience of one woman and her husband during the course of her natural...

    Misconception
  • 1969
    Turtle

    Turtle

    Turtle

    01969HD

    A life-light guilt trip, tragicomic psychodrama in the film time. Made in the darkness of my year in a women's dormitory. 1969, Tufts University,...

    Turtle
  • 1985
    Lyrics

    Lyrics

    Lyrics

    01985HD

    Three songs between heaven and earth. With Carmen, Susan, Joseph and Marcus Vigil.

    Lyrics
  • 1975
    Superimposition

    Superimposition

    Superimposition

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    "The film opens and there is a disfunction of the camera that gives two images at once. The tension between the first and the second, the wrestle to...

    Superimposition
  • 1973
    She/Va

    She/Va

    She/Va

    51973HD

    A young dancer re-choreographed through film editing. This film was originally made in standard 8mm from a home movie.

    She/Va
  • 1971
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    01971HD

    A portrait: of Saul Levine, filmmaker and one-time Italian Ice Vendor./of the film surface & depth/so by the choice of image./ of the inside &...

    Untitled
  • 1977
    The Web

    The Web

    The Web

    01977HD

    In THE WEB I delved for the first and only time into film as mischief-making; wicked, like a child.

    The Web
  • 1971
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    01971HD

    A portrait: of Saul Levine, filmmaker and one-time Italian Ice Vendor./of the film surface & depth/so by the choice of image./ of the inside &...

    Untitled
  • 1975
    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)

    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)

    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)

    01975HD

    "A journal of change in pattern of living and seeing as determined by an often misfunctioning but faithful camera."-M.K

    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)
  • 1991
    Is As Is

    Is As Is

    Is As Is

    01991HD

    A portrait of a mother with her arms full in the backyard bathing her twin babies as the early spring light sings and dances. Later the father cooks...

    Is As Is
  • 1975
    Film Notebook: Part 2 (Some of Us in the Mechanical Age)

    Film Notebook: Part 2 (Some of Us in the Mechanical Age)

    Film Notebook: Part 2 (Some of Us in the Mechanical Age)

    01975HD

    "A journal of change in pattern of living and seeing as determined by an often misfunctioning but faithful camera."-M.K

    Film Notebook: Part 2 (Some of Us in the Mechanical Age)
  • 1980
    Daughters of Chaos

    Daughters of Chaos

    Daughters of Chaos

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    The film deals simultaneously with girls becoming women, woman looking back on her childhood. It is pervaded with voluptuousness, with longing: the...

    Daughters of Chaos
  • 1978
    On the Verge of an Image of Christmas

    On the Verge of an Image of Christmas

    On the Verge of an Image of Christmas

    01978HD

    A study of the patterns and gesture of family when ceremony no longer counts. Made to remember the occasion and place myself as a part of it.

    On the Verge of an Image of Christmas
  • 1973
    Hell No, No Cuts

    Hell No, No Cuts

    Hell No, No Cuts

    01973HD

    A film made by Marjorie Keller that document a successful struggle against welfare cuts by welfare clients, workers, and their allies.

    Hell No, No Cuts
  • 2011
    Trip to Carolee

    Trip to Carolee

    Trip to Carolee

    62011HD

    Super 8mm transfer to digital, color, sound, 5:07 minutes. Still images of things passing; a diary between city and country. Marjorie Keller and...

    Trip to Carolee