Wendy Clarke

Shirley Clarke (1925-1997): “Dancer, filmmaker and video artist Shirley Clarke helped shape the emerging film culture of the American independent film movement in the Fifties and Sixties. Her world was that of New York City’s underground culture of jazz, beat literature, Off-Broadway theatre, modern dance, and experimental film. Early influences included avant-garde filmmakers Hans Richter, with whom she studied at City College, and the formidable Maya Deren, in whose footsteps she followed…