Movies: Amy Greenfield

A visual poem in which a young man and woman move from dead weight (death) to transcendent flight (rebirth) distilling the extremes of the early 1970s, from the Vietnam war to space exploration....

This first feature by Amy Greenfield brings to the screen the story of the daughter of Oedipus in an emotionally relentless, visually stunning New Music Film Opera which challenges the conventions of narrative cinema to create a genre of its own. The...

Directed by Amy Greenfield....

Female dancers “clothed” in electronically generated flaming colors reincarnate Thomas Edison’s 1894 hand-tinted film “Annabelle Dances”....

Directed by Amy Greenfield....

Directed by Amy Greenfield....

Directed by Amy Greenfield....

Like female artists in other forms - Carolee Schneeman, Versuchka, Charlotte Moorman- who covered their bodies with earth and paint and chocolate, Greenfield in Element reveals a femaleness both transgressive and erotic. She unites complex associatio...

My wedding gift to Robert Haller and Amy Greenfield. The publishers of the Anthology Film Archives are very happy with the making this farce....

... has been used in women's studies classes on rape. Its energy is the energy of protest and of rock music. A woman is dragged and dragged through dirt with increasing violence. As the violence increases, so does the beat and intensity of the harsh,...

The classical nude as video in four male/female duets...

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Shot from between 48 and 250 fps, Tides reverses Maya Deren's At Land, with the first shot instead of spewing Deren up onto the beach, instead sweeps Greenfield into the sea to turn words of Neitchze into a cinematic experience of "Far out glitter sp...

Greenfield's subjective camera zooms in and out at a dizzying pace on performer Suzanne Gregoire, who is completely nude in a pair of stilettos and a long string of extra large pearls. She is bound and tangled in the expansive string of pearls while ...

A nude woman whirled continuously till exhausted. The only sounds were the motion of her feet, the rustle and flap of drapery, and the increasingly labored rhythm of her breathing. Images were superimposed and dramatic patterns of light and form appe...

Choreographer Amy Greenfield shifted her focus from live dance to film and saw the shift as a way to reveal the dancer's inner self rather than the external appearance stressed by dance training....

A film by Amy Greenfield....

Video by Amy Greenfield...

A film by Amy Greenfield....