Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast
1963, English. Directed by Carolee Schneemann.
In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles, known for his irascible personality and finely-crafted atonal music. Ruggles is seen enjoying pie a la mode and ruminating on subjects ranging from Christmas to his incomplete opera The Sunken Bell. The hand-painted film stock heightens the impressionistic vitality of this snapshot of the 84-year-old composer, who is heard paraphrasing Freud: "Everything that you do is a matter of sex. That is the great passion of life."
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Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1963. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast?
Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast (1963) was directed by Carolee Schneemann.