Michael Almereyda Movies

In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding...

One year after Hurricane Katrina, troubles arise for a surgeon who, despite remarrying his ex-wife and starting his life anew, becomes reacquainted...

A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the 'fiercely independent' residents of a remote English fishing village.

A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king.

A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord.

In 1967, strait-laced exploitation movie king Roger Corman embarks on a life-changing attempt to capture the psychedelic world of LSD on film by...

The writings and movie memories of renowned poet John Ashbery are refracted in a kaleidoscope of film clips that open up an illuminating dialogue...

Commissioned by Chuck Workman and excerpted in his What is Cinema (2014). Never screened in public.

Interview with director Wim Wenders conducted and edited by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

Loosely based on a section of Mikhail Lermontov's classic Russian novel of the same title, the film involves a displaced cowboy (played by Kevin...

Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."

André Breton, the great leader of the surrealist revolution, is still alive and he is in New York! Filmed with Almereyda's favourite...

The Fitzgerald classic as you've never seen it, transposed to a Los Angeles of sleek modern architecture and strip-mall foot clinics.

Almereyda’s reading of Kenneth Koch’s “To the Unknown” transforms footage of the everyday into a moving tribute to one of the...

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook, a collection of brief episodes captured during a decade of travel. The...

John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive...

Four short films were created in honor of artist residency program MacDowell's Centennial in 2007. Four artists, competitively selected from among...