Charles Atlas

Biography

Charles Atlas is a video artist and film director who also does lighting and set design. He is a pioneer in developing media-dance, also called dance for camera.

Directed

1. SSS (1989) — Director
2. The Legend of Leigh Bowery (2002) — Director
3. Put More Blood Into the Music (1988) — Director
4. Turning (2012) — Director
5. Merce by Merce by Paik (1978) — Director
6. Hail the New Puritan (1986) — Director
7. Check Your Body at the Door (2012) — Director
8. Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance (2001) — Director
9. Son of Sam and Delilah (1991) — Director
10. Mrs. Peanut Visits New York (1999) — Director
11. Ocean (2010) — Director
12. Alive from Off Center (1985) — Director
13. From an island summer (1983) — Director
14. Because We Must (1989) — Director
15. Ex-Romance — Director
16. We Interrupt This Program (1991) — Director
17. It's a Jackie Thing (1999) — Director
18. Westbeth (1975) — Director
19. Tornado Warning (2006) — Director
20. A Prune Twin (2020) — Director
21. The Tyranny of Consciousness (2017) — Director
22. BIPED — Director
23. Disco 2000 (1990) — Director
24. THE “MARTHA” TAPES, PART 6 (2000) — Director
25. Channels/Inserts (1981) — Director
26. The Myth of Modern Dance (1990) — Director
27. Secret of the Waterfall (1983) — Director
28. Superhoney (1994) — Director
29. Coast Zone (1984) — Director
30. Exchange — Director
31. What I Did Last Summer (1991) — Director
32. Rainer Variations (2002) — Director
33. A Museum ? (2015) — Director
34. Staten Island Sex Cult (1998) — Director
35. The "Martha" Tapes, part 8 (2000) — Director
36. Mayonnaise #1 (1973) — Director
37. Nevada (1974) — Director
38. Oh, Misha (1999) — Director
39. Floor (1974) — Director
40. Grand Dance of Jolly 3 (2010) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Turning (2012) — Self