Shirley Clarke
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Title
Shirley Clarke
Contributor
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First Name
Shirley
Surname or Business Name
Clarke
Years Affiliated
2019
Birth Date
1919
Birthplace
United States
Death Date
1997
Occupation
Filmmaker
Biographical Text
Shirley Clarke was an esteemed figure in the American avant-garde cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, and a pioneer of video in the 1970s. She brought a distinctive aesthetic of “choreography of images” to her work as a trained dancer and manipulated image, time, and space by applying choreographic editing and technical effects as a dramatic, expressive language. She co-founded Film-Makers Cooperative and Film-Makers Distribution Center in New York, which offered alternative distribution methods for independent filmmakers. She was also the winner of an Academy Award for her 1964 documentary film Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With the World.
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Citation
“Shirley Clarke,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/748.