Richard Foreman

6.2 MovieSet in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

American Pastoral

2016

3.9 MovieAn architect, a security chief, a parapsychologist and an exorcist face evil in a Barcelona skyscraper.

Dark Tower

1989

6.3 MovieAdaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see...

Strong Medicine

1981

5.3 MovieSince the late 1960s, the almost annual productions of Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater have been among New York’s artistic highlights. A legend of the...

Once Every Day

2012

10.0 MovieAvant garde film from 1978, by playwright and filmmaker Richard Foreman.

City Archives

1978

MovieA filmed play by Richard Foreman.

Lava

1989

MovieThe 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double projections and...

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground

2018

Movie"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It’s only love:...

Bill's Hat

1967

MovieForeman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to shoot this...

Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance

1977

MovieForeman spent the early months of 1979 rehearsing a play called Madness and Tranquility (My Head Was a Sledgehammer), which he abruptly cancelled very shortly before...

Pavane For A Missing Play

1979

MovieA young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

2011

MovieA "young woman who finds herself surrounded by the relics of Western culture" is the subject of Richard Foreman's formal tableaux. The narration centers on a young...

Out of the Body Travel

1976

MovieAn opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman

Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

2009

MovieWhat to Wear is a raucous, bitingly funny post-rock opera from avant-garde theater icon Richard Foreman and celebrated composer Michael Gordon. In Foreman’s...

What to Wear

2006

MovieExperimental documentary in which Foreman presents his way of looking at different issues.

Mad Love

2018

MovieQuite possibly Foreman’s strongest digital video, NOW YOU SEE IT NOW YOU DON’T brings together a variety of different elements, including excerpts from Foreman’s own...

Now You See It Now You Don't