Raphael Montañez Ortíz
- Regia
- 30 gennaio 1934 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biografia
Raphael Montañez Ortíz (b. 1934, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist perhaps best known for his radical performances of the 1960s as part of the Destructivist movement which he helped to articulate. Not many know that he is also a pioneer of found footage cinema who deserves greater recognition within the American filmic avant-garde. Starting in 1957, he produced a number of singular works by subjecting 16mm prints of commercially- or institutionally-produced films to a cut-up method inspired by Yaqui shamanic practices, a kind of ritualistic chance operation intended to break down their structure and thoroughly undermine their discursive power. In the mid-1980s, Montañez Ortiz continued his critical deconstructions of commercial cinema, this time exploring a novel format: the laser disc. Having created a special interactive setup at the computer lab of Rutgers University, the artist transformed micro-moments from classic films into looping, stuttering choreographies that, through obsessive repetition, reveal the tacit gestualities and subconscious inner dynamics of these seemingly innocent Hollywood scenes.
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Filmografia
- Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
- Couch Destruction: Angel Release · Regia
- Piano Destruction Concert: Dada con Mama · Regia
- Busy Bodies · Regia
- It's Coming Up · Regia
- The Conversation · Montaggio, Regia
- Introspective: Ortiz Art-Work Late 1950s - Late 1980s · Regia
- Ring Ring Rag Time · Regia
- Piano Destruction Concert: Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall · Regia
- That's Too Much · Regia
- Dance Number 22 · Regia, Montaggio
- Our Thoughts Are Made of Clay: The Horsewomyn of the Apocalypse · Montaggio, Regia
- Gonna Get Me a Gal · Montaggio, Regia
- Here's Looking At You Kid · Regia
- If You Don't Want It Anymore · Regia, Montaggio
- Man Has Man Has Always · Regia, Montaggio
- Pushann Pushann · Regia
- Good and Evil · Regia, Montaggio
- I Spent My Last Breathe At Thee · Regia, Montaggio
- You Bust Your Bunns · Montaggio, Regia
- Couplett · Regia, Montaggio
- Stop Stop Stop Stop · Regia, Montaggio
- The First Born Female Child · Regia, Montaggio
- Welcome · Regia, Montaggio
- What Is This · Regia, Montaggio
- The Kiss · Montaggio, Regia
- Beach Umbrella · Regia
- Dance Number · Regia
- Henny Penny: The Sky Is Falling · Regia, Montaggio
- Newsreel · Montaggio, Regia
- Cowboy and "Indian" Film · Montaggio, Regia
- Golf · Montaggio, Regia
- Ritual Destruction of "Follow Through" · Regia