Where to watch Shirley Clarke in the UK
Find every Shirley Clarke film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 25 September 2026.
A major figure of the American avant garde, Shirley Brimberg Clarke (1919-1997) was born into privilege as the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants who made their fortune in manufacturing. Rebelling against a repressive bourgeois upbringing, Clarke turned first to dance, and later film and video, to express her distinctive vision of the world. Moving freely across genres and media throughout her career (and often within a single work), Clarke’s cinema explores the porous boundaries between narrative and documentary filmmaking, and film and other media, such as painting, dance, performance and…
Shirley Clarke films streaming in the UK
Most-watched films featuring Shirley Clarke, available across UK streaming, rent and buy.
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- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) as Self
- Birth of a Nation (1997) as Self
- Lions Love (1969) as Shirley
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) as Self (archive footage)
- Happy Birthday to John (1997) as Self
- Up Your Legs Forever (1971) as Self - Legs(uncredited)
- The Connection (1962) Director
- Ornette: Made in America (1986) Director
- Alien Blood (1999) as second alien mother / MIB soldier
- The Cool World (1964) Director
- For Life, Against the War (1967) Director
- Portrait of Jason (1967) Director
- The Beats: An Existential Comedy (1980) Cast
- Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963) Director
- Yoko and John Party (1971) Director
- Skyscraper (1959) Director
- Savage/Love (1981) Director
- Underground New York (1968) as Self
- Galaxie (1966) as Self
- Sex Stars (1976) as Self
- Tongues (1982) Director
- A Visual Diary (1980) Director
- Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Mysterium (1978) Director
- As Kineastas (1986) Cast
- The Modnar Machine (1980) Cast
- Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke (1970) as Shirley Clarke
- Bill's Hat (1967) Cast
- Home Movies #20: Dance Tests (2016) Director
- Shirley Clarke: The Artist with the Lens (2016) as Self (archival footage)
- Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971 (1971) Director
- Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Trans (1978) Director
- Christopher and Me (1960) Dialogue
- Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three (1978) Director
- Dance in the Sun (1953) Director
- Bridges-Go-Round 2 (1958) Director
- Decroux Film (2016) Director
- Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video Game (1984) Director
- Brussels Loops (1958) Director
- Home Movies #10 Wedding and Pregnancy (1943) as Herself
- Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation (1978) Director
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