
Larry Gottheim
Directing
Born: 1936-12-03 · New York, New York
Biography
Born in 1936, Larry Gottheim taught himself 16mm filmmaking in the 1960s and became one of America's leading avant-garde filmmakers. From his late-1960s series of sublime 'single-shot' films to the dense sound/image constructs of the mid-1970s and after, his cinema is the cinema of presence, of observation, and of deep conscious engagement. While addressing genres of landscape, diary and assemblage filmmaking, Gottheim's work properly stands alone in its intensive investigations of the paradoxes
🎬 Movies (27)

Up Close
2025
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A Private Room
2024
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Entanglement
2022
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Knot/Not
2019
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Chants and Dances for Hand
2017
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The Opening
2012
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Birth of a Nation
1997
Self

Your Television Traveler
1991
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Machete Gillette... Mama
1989
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Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987

Mnemosyne Mother of Muses
1987
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The Red Thread
1987
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Home Movies 1971-81
1985

"Sorry/Hear Us"
1984
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Natural Selection
1983
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Tree of Knowledge
1981
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Four Shadows
1978
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Mouches Volantes
1976
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Horizons
1973
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Barn Rushes
1971
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Harmonica
1971
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Doorway
1971
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Thought
1971
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Fog Line
1970
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Corn
1970
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ALA
1969
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Blues
1969
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