Marjorie Keller

Marjorie Keller

Experimental filmmaker, author, activist, film scholar, and cultural worker Marjorie Keller (1950-1994) created a uniquely personal and feminist body of work for twenty years beginning in the early 1970s. Keller also served on the board of directors of the Collective for Living Cinema, was the founding editor of their journal, Motion Picture from 1984 to 1987 and was Director of the New York Filmmakers Cooperative in the late 1980s. Writer J. Hoberman called her “an unselfish champion of the avant-garde.” Her films deftly combine home movie and diary styles through a potent politicized lens.

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Marjorie Keller Movies

  • 1985
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    The Answering Furrow

    The Answering Furrow

    6 1985 HD

    Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants....

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  • 2011
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    Trip to Carolee

    Trip to Carolee

    6 2011 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    As Is Was

    As Is Was

    1 1995 HD

    This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was...

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  • 1991
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    Departure

    Departure

    1 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    Is As Is

    Is As Is

    1 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Trip to Carolee

    Trip to Carolee

    6 2011 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    By Twos and Threes: Women

    By Twos and Threes: Women

    1 1974 HD

    Directed by Marjorie Keller.

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  • 1979
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    Six Windows

    Six Windows

    8 1979 HD

    “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...

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  • 1973
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    The Outer Circle

    The Outer Circle

    6 1973 HD

    “This film doesn’t get anywhere…just like adolescence. The hair comes off, the hair goes on, the hairdresser moves this way and...

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  • 1972
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    Part IV (Green Hill)

    Part IV (Green Hill)

    8 1972 HD

    Fleeting 8mm views of the Rhode Island coast reach beyond the home movie towards deeper mysteries of light and presence. With window-framed shots,...

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  • 1977
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    Misconception

    Misconception

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    Daughters of Chaos

    Daughters of Chaos

    7 1980 HD

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

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  • 1988
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    Private Parts

    Private Parts

    5 1988 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    The Answering Furrow

    The Answering Furrow

    6 1985 HD

    Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants....

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  • 1983
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    The Fallen World

    The Fallen World

    7.5 1983 HD

    An elegy for a Newfoundland dog named Melville and a portrait of his owner.

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  • 1991
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    Herein

    Herein

    5 1991 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    Objection

    Objection

    6 1974 HD

    Begun as a document for insurance purposes, OBJECTION catalogues the contents of a house with ever-increasing horror. The soundtrack carries the...

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  • 1973
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    She/Va

    She/Va

    5 1973 HD

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

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  • 1979
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    Ancient Parts/Foreign Parts

    Ancient Parts/Foreign Parts

    6 1979 HD

    The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a...

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  • 1975
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    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)

    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)

    1 1975 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    The Answering Furrow

    The Answering Furrow

    6 1985 HD

    Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants....

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  • 1985
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    The Answering Furrow

    The Answering Furrow

    6 1985 HD

    Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants....

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  • 1985
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    Lyrics

    Lyrics

    1 1985 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    Untitled

    Untitled

    1 1971 HD

    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 &...

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  • 1977
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    The Web

    The Web

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1969
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    Turtle

    Turtle

    1 1969 HD

    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,...

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  • 1974
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    Objection

    Objection

    6 1974 HD

    Begun as a document for insurance purposes, OBJECTION catalogues the contents of a house with ever-increasing horror. The soundtrack carries the...

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  • 1974
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    Objection

    Objection

    6 1974 HD

    Begun as a document for insurance purposes, OBJECTION catalogues the contents of a house with ever-increasing horror. The soundtrack carries the...

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  • 1978
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    On the Verge of an Image of Christmas

    On the Verge of an Image of Christmas

    1 1978 HD

    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.

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  • 1971
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    We Demand Jobs

    We Demand Jobs

    1 1971 HD

    The We Demand march of 1971 was the first recorded political action taken by queer activists in Canada. The date of this march, August 28, 1971,...

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  • 1973
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    Hell No, No Cuts

    Hell No, No Cuts

    1 1973 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    Untitled

    Untitled

    1 1971 HD

    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 &...

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  • 1975
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    Superimposition

    Superimposition

    1 1975 HD

    "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...

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

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

    1 1975 HD

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

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