Yvonne Rainer

A Manhattan professor’s (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman ...

Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and ...