Marjorie Keller Movies

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

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

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 &...

Begun as a document for insurance purposes, Objection catalogues the contents of a house. The soundtrack carries the voices and sounds of the family...

"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...

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

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 This film was originally made in standard 8mm from a home movie.

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...

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

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

“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...

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

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,...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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