Film
Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast
1963 · 10m
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Overview
In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles, known for his irascible personality and finely-crafted atonal music. Ruggles is seen enjoying pie a la mode and ruminating on subjects ranging from Christmas to his incomplete opera The Sunken Bell. The hand-painted film stock heightens the impressionistic vitality of this snapshot of the 84-year-old composer, who is heard paraphrasing Freud: "Everything that you do is a matter of sex. That is the great passion of life."
Crew
- Carolee SchneemannDirector
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 1963
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 10m
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