Amy Greenfield
Biography
Amy Greenfield is a filmmaker and writer living in New York City. She is an originator of the cine-dance genre and a pioneer of experimental film and video. Greenfield has directed, produced, edited, and often performed in more than thirty films, plus holographic moving sculpture, live multimedia, and video installations.
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Self
A visual poem in which a young man and woman move from dead weight (death) to transcendent flight (rebirth) distilling the extremes of the early 1970s, from the Vietnam war to space exploration.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Antigone
This first feature by Amy Greenfield brings to the screen the story of the daughter of Oedipus in an emotionally relentless, visually stunning New Music Film Opera which challenges the conventions of narrative cinema to create a genre of its own. The 2500-year-old drama of the woman who defied the state to bury her brother is transformed through stark, ceaseless movement, haunting sounds and music (including themes from Glen Branca, David Van Tieghem, Elliot Sharp and Diamanda Galas) and words of outcry against our own world's injustice.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Like female artists in other forms - Carolee Schneeman, Versuchka, Charlotte Moorman- who covered their bodies with earth and paint and chocolate, Greenfield in Element reveals a femaleness both transgressive and erotic. She unites complex associations of death and birth in a visceral mud-caked performance.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
My wedding gift to Robert Haller and Amy Greenfield. The publishers of the Anthology Film Archives are very happy with the making this farce.