TERRASSEN (ed.)
Privilege. Yvonne Rainer Filmography

Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) needs no introduction. One of the great American artists of her generation, she revolutionised dance and choreography in the 1960s. Yet over the course of two decades – from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s – Rainer also directed seven feature films, each intensely discursive and consistently inviting critical reflection. Radically diverse and impossible to categorise, her films carve out their own space between documentary, fiction, performance, and the avant-garde. Newly restored in 4K, they were presented in a retrospective organised by Terrassen in 2024 at Palads Cinema, Copenhagen, a retrospective accompanied by this book, that gathers contributions from Babette Mangolte, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Mira Adoumier, Emily Wardill, Emily LaBarge, Amelia Groom, Valérie Massadian, Iman Mohammed, Frida Sandström, and Yvonne Rainer herself. [publishers’ note]

Published by At Last Books, 2025
Design by Hans Munk
Dance / Film & Video