WHAT MAISIE KNEW
(1975)
 
(NOW) or MAINTENANT ENTRE PARENTHESES
(1976)
 
THE CAMERA : JE or LA CAMERA : I
(1977)
 
WATER MOTOR
(1978)
 
THERE? WHERE?
(1979)
 
THE COLD EYE (My Darling, Be Careful)
(1980)
 
THE SKY ON LOCATION
(1982)
 
VISIBLE CITIES
(1991)
 
FOUR PIECES BY MORRIS
(1993)
 
LES MODELES DE PICKPOCKET
(2003)
 
Seven Easy Pieces
by MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
(2007)
 
yvonne rainer ag indexical
(2007)
 
YVONNE RAINER RoS INDEXICAL
(2008)
 
Slide Show
(2010)
 
ROOF PIECE ON THE HIGH LINE
(2012)
 
PATRICIA PATTERSON PAINTINGS
(2012)
 
EDWARD KRASIŃSKI’S STUDIO
(2012)
 
Staging "Lateral Pass"
(Shot in 1985/edited 2013)
 
Steve Paxton AT DiA:Beacon
(2014)
 
Je, Nous, I or Eye, US
(2014)
 
  WHAT MAISIE KNEW, 1975, 16mm 58 min. B&W
   
 

Prix de la Lumière, Toulon Film Festival, Toulon, France, 1975

With Epp Kotkas, Kate Manheim, Saskia Noordhoek-Hegt, Linda Patton, Yvonne Rainer and Jerry Bauman, James Barth, John Erdman and Philip Glass.
Music: “Etudes Symphoniques” by Schumann, “Flute solo” by Jon Gibson

“A film made around the subjective camera, the vision of a child, and a re-reading of the Henry James novel. The concern is not with reality and appearance but the manner in which these terms come to be constituted.” – Constance Penley

“The film is a kind of Maisie in Wonderland.” – Ruby Rich

As Henry James said, “You still have room for wonder at what Maisie knew.”
The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a kind of narrative. - BM

Permanent Collections:
“Histoire du Cinema,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
New York Public Library, Donnell Branch, New York
Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco, California
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia

   
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