Raphael Montañez Ortíz
- Yönetmenlik
- 30 Ocak 1934 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biyografi
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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Filmografi
- Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
- Couch Destruction: Angel Release · Yönetmen
- Piano Destruction Concert: Dada con Mama · Yönetmen
- Busy Bodies · Yönetmen
- It's Coming Up · Yönetmen
- The Conversation · Kurgu, Yönetmen
- Introspective: Ortiz Art-Work Late 1950s - Late 1980s · Yönetmen
- Ring Ring Rag Time · Yönetmen
- Piano Destruction Concert: Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall · Yönetmen
- That's Too Much · Yönetmen
- Dance Number 22 · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- Our Thoughts Are Made of Clay: The Horsewomyn of the Apocalypse · Kurgu, Yönetmen
- Gonna Get Me a Gal · Kurgu, Yönetmen
- Here's Looking At You Kid · Yönetmen
- If You Don't Want It Anymore · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- Man Has Man Has Always · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- Pushann Pushann · Yönetmen
- Good and Evil · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- I Spent My Last Breathe At Thee · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- You Bust Your Bunns · Kurgu, Yönetmen
- Couplett · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- Stop Stop Stop Stop · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- The First Born Female Child · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- Welcome · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- What Is This · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- The Kiss · Kurgu, Yönetmen
- Beach Umbrella · Yönetmen
- Dance Number · Yönetmen
- Henny Penny: The Sky Is Falling · Yönetmen, Kurgu
- Newsreel · Kurgu, Yönetmen
- Cowboy and "Indian" Film · Kurgu, Yönetmen
- Golf · Kurgu, Yönetmen
- Ritual Destruction of "Follow Through" · Yönetmen