Larry Gottheim
# Larry Gottheim

Larry Gottheim (born 1936) is an American avant-garde filmmaker.

## Early life

Gottheim was born December 3, 1936. He attended a high school for music and the arts.

Gottheim went to Oberlin College for undergraduate studies, where he became interested in poetry and fiction. He earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Yale University.

## Career

Gottheim became a faculty member at Binghamton University, where he began teaching literature. He purchased a Bolex camera and began learning how to make films. In 1969 Gottheim brought filmmaker Ken Jacobs to Binghamton, and they established a film department, the first in the SUNY system. His Elective Affinities series, named after the novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is a collection of four films: Mouches Volantes, Four Shadows, Tree of Knowledge, and Natural Selection.

## Filmography

* Blues (1970)
* Fog Line (1970)
* Corn (1970)
* Doorway (1971)
* Thought (1971)
* Harmonica (1971)
* Barn Rushes (1971)
* Horizons (1973)
* Mouches Volantes (1976)
* Four Shadows (1978)
* Tree of Knowledge (1981)
* Natural Selection (1984)
* Sorry / Hear Us (1986)
* Mnemosyne Mother of Muses (1987)
* The Red Thread (1987)
* Machette Gillette... Mama (1989)
* Your Television Traveler (1991)
* Chants and Dances for Hand (2016)
