Mimi Gross

A film-dance, shot on 16mm film in Long Island City, Queens, NY.

A silent screen-type comedy starring Edwin Denby as Hemlock Stinge, the unlovable billionaire.

“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it. The humor is tenderly black. Burckhardt's fusion of documentary-type photography with fairytale storyline is nearer Keystone than avant-garde with its visual honesty and particular virtuosity.” — Edwin Denby

A rapid montage collage featuring Jack Smith and a Warholian kiss.

A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realises he must either break out or break down.

"Fat Feet", eight months in production, is a pop-art view of life in the big city, complete with a fire-fighting episode and various street scenes. Three dimensional figures and real actors were shot by Grooms both on location and within sets.