An exploration of experimental and multidisciplinary forms of cinema
UNITED STATES | 9 minutes | 2014
Super 8 reels of Paris catwalks I shot in 1979/1980 were supposed to become an experimental short meditation on couture culture. Its authority has unraveled some since and Deleuze’s definition of style: “creating a foreign language in one’s own language,” encouraged me to loosen the threads of this pursuit. To ponder how fashion and style are interwoven but also influenced by individual flare and whimsy, I stitched together Coco Chanel, Courrèges, Cole Porter and Kaiser Karl with vintage film moments. Then, as now, to grasp the whole cloth of this interface involves finding, but also Losing the Thread…
As part of PROGRAMME LAB 4
No biography
• Carolyn 2, 1980, (expanded cinema) with Carolyn Carlson, co-directed with Martine Rousset• Top Ten Stylists, 1980, documentary on fashion designers Thierry Mugler, Karl Lagerfeld, Issey Miyake, etc. Co-directed with Soft Ware Prod.• Movie (VO), 1982• Copacabana Beach, 1983• Allers-Venues, 1984• Stalingrad, 1984, film installation• U.S.S.A. 1985• * * * (Trois étoiles), 1987• Propos Décousus, 1987, expanded super 8 (Galerie J & J Donguy)• Eat, 1988• M.M. in Motion, 1992• Uta Makura (Pillow Poems), 1995• Public Domain, 1996• American International Pictures 1997• Interview with Woody Allen for Jerusalem Film Festival, 1997• Work and Progress, 1999, Co-directed with Yann Beauvais.• NIKITA KINO, 2002• ICE/SEA, 2005• Telepattes, 2007• Fone Fur Follies, 2008• Ne Pas Sonner, 2008• The Title was shot, 2009• Tatitude, 2009• Pincéis e panéis –Paintbrushes and panels 2010• Wherever was never there, 2011• Ocean bazar, 16 mm film installation co-directed with Silvi Simon at Solar gallery, Vila do Conde, Portugal, 2011• Splash, 16 mm film installation co-directed with Silvi Simon at Jaffa Port, Israel, 2013• Losing the Thread, 2014Main venues: - Museums: Centre Pompidou, Louvre, Paris ; MOMA, New York ; M.A.M. Rio de Janeiro ; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, Kunsthalle, Basel- Film Festivals: Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto, London, Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro, etc. - Universities : Berkeley (Pacific Film Archives), Yale, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris - International Art Fairs: Arco (Madrid); Biennales: São Paulo, Paris - Anthology Film Archives (New York), London Filmmakers Coop, Scratch Projections (Paris) - Other: Sydney, Montreal, Chicago, San Sebastian, Sorrento, Osnabrück, Copenhagen, Brussels, Frankfurt, Vienna, Tokyo, etc. Acquisitions:- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - Forum des Images, Paris - Israel Film Archives - Ministry of Foreign Affairs for French Institutes worldwide. - MOMA, New York - Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, Berlin
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