Hello all, I'm forwarding information about an online discussion that will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) with the artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz about the films and videos he made in the late 1950s and in the 1980s-90s. A selection of his works is already viewable online at the link specified below. Hope some of you can join in!
Si ce message ne s'affiche pas correctement, cliquez ici <https://lightcone.org/fr/news-682-defaire-le-cinema-une-rencontre-avec-raphael-montanez-ortiz> - English below <#m_516062018829553354_english> ------------------------------ Scratch Projection *UNMAKING CINEMA* *A CONVERSATION WITH RAPHAEL MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ* *Online program from Monday 22 to Sunday 28 March 2021Round table on Wednesday 24 March 2021* *Light Cone presents a selection of recently digitized films and videos by Raphael Montañez Ortiz <https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-682-raphael-montanez-ortiz> and proposes a conversation with the artist in the company of art historians Chon Noriega and Kevin Hatch.* *Raphael Montañez Ortiz* (b. 1934, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist perhaps best known for his radical performances of the 1960s as part of the Destructionist 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. These works have recently acquired a renewed visibility thanks to a digitization project led by the Chicano Studies Research Center of UCLA. In addition, in 2020 El Museo del Barrio published the first monograph on the artist, *Raphael Montañez Ortiz <https://checkout.square.site/buy/4ZRNZQ2CEUAV2LZRD73TYFHW>*, edited by Javier Rivero Ramos, and *Found Footage Magazine <https://foundfootagemagazine.com/issues/issue-6/>* dedicated its March 2020 issue (nº6) to his work. *ROUND TABLE WITH RAPHAEL MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ* *Wednesday 24 March 2021 at 6pm (GMT+1)* Raphael Montañez Ortiz will converse with art historians Chon Noriega and Kevin Hatch on *March 24, 2021, at 6pm (GMT+1)* via Zoom. You can register for the event by following *this link <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_72VnkSr9RfekabtdXNDZeQ>*. *Chon Noriega*, professor at the department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA and director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, which holds the archives of Raphael Montañez Ortiz. Art historian, curator and author of numerous books, including *Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema* (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and *Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement* (University of California Press, 2008). *Kevin Hatch*, associate professor of Art History at Binghampton University, researcher with an interest in postwar American art and author of *Looking for Bruce Conner* (MIT Press, 2012). *FILM PROGRAM* *From Monday 22 to Sunday 28 March 2021* *This program will be available for streaming free of charge from Monday, March 22 to Sunday, March 28, 2021, on this page <https://lightcone.org/en/news-682-defaire-le-cinema-une-rencontre-avec-raphael-montanez-ortiz>.* * GOLF * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1957 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 1' 09 * * COWBOY AND "INDIAN" FILM * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1958 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 2' 00 * * HENNY PENNY: THE SKY IS FALLING * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1958 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 8' 43 * * NEWS REEL * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1958 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 2' 00 * * THE KISS * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1985 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 6' 00 * * WHAT IS THIS * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1985 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 9' 15 * * YOU BUST YOUR BUNNS * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1986 / U-Matic / color / sound / 5' 30 * * GONNA GET ME A GAL * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1991 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 3' 00 * * DANCE NUMBER 22 * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1993 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 7' 22 * * THE CONVERSATION * by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ * 1996 / U-Matic / color-b&w / sound / 12' 00 * MORE INFORMATION Registration link (Zoom) <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_72VnkSr9RfekabtdXNDZeQ> Facebook event <https://www.facebook.com/events/4176125992479836> [email protected] www.lightcone.org <https://twitter.com/Light_Cone> <https://www.facebook.com/LightCone.ParisLC/> <https://www.instagram.com/lightcone_officiel/> ------------------------------ désinscription <https://lightcone.org/fr/liste-de-diffusion> | unsuscribe <https://lightcone.org/en/mailing-list>
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