Standish Lawder Movies

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces...

Further examining the medium of film itself, Colorfilm is a work Lawder made while trying to make a minimalist, "pure color" film. Using...

Played on a distant television screen in the dark (with some additional zooms by Lawler), 'Runaway' mainly consists of looped footage of what looks...

An unknown observer is seen traveling through a bleak corridor. At the end of the corridor they see a naked woman, whom they are unable to reach as...

Standish Lawder's four minute abridgement of D.W. Griffith's 1916 colossus. Processed "entirely automatically" and 'skip-printed' on homemade...

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

A spectacularly silly collage combo of old-cartoon-loop, colored light display and superimposed B-roll-- Why not do it in the road?

Made for Intercat '73, Pola Chapelle's Cat Film Festival in New York. In the early 70's, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle...

At the time, I lived with my wife Ursula and our daughters Katy and Cynnie, together with many, too many cats. I loved my family but not the cats....

Made in 1988 at the University of California, San Diego in Standish Lawder's Experimental Film course.

I had long wanted to make a film on Hans Richter who has been an important figure in my life, and this is the result. Almost unedited, it was shot...

A compilation job, a construction film, a treasure chest of bizarre and amusing footage, gathered from the entire range of the history of cinema.

Made from some footage I shot on a family vacation way back in 1949. It features my brother Doug and a horse whose name I've forgotten. A circular...

Made entirely from old classroom instructional films, Dangling Participle offers a wealth of practical advice on contemporary sexual hang-ups and...

Standish Lawder's The March of the Garter Snakes effectively demonstrated that a slide can produce kinetic experiences.

RAINDANCE plays directly on the mind through programmatic stimulation of the central nervous system. Individual frames of the film are imprinted on...