Robert Withers

Robert Withers

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Robert Withers is an author and filmmaker who has created innovative and award-winning works since the 1970s. He studied with Standish Lawder at Yale and apprenticed with D.A. Pennebaker in New York.

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16 Millimeter Earrings 1979 (10)

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally performed in 1966, Judson Memorial Church, New York.
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Chemical Wedding 1976

10 minutes, 16mm color. Experimental. A postmodern structural circle dance with Bolex and summer trees.
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Scopolamine 1975

"Comfortably, as in its natural element, a camera swims coolly in the moltitude of the crown. It stares at an urban 70's America. An insistent melody in slow-motion gives a melancholic aspect to the show of these passers-by crossed and lost, the human crown of the time." -Cyril Hurel