The experimental film series "Tierra de nadie" continues at the Dr. Madrazo Cultural Centre. On Thursday 20 March at 7:00 pm, Cineinfinito will cover the figure of the American filmmaker Raphael Montañez Ortiz.
Program:
- Golf (1957), 16mm, b&w, sound, 1 min.
- Henny Penny: The Sky Is Falling (1957-1958), 8mm, b&w, sound, 9 min.
- Cowboy And "Indian" Film (1957-1958), 16mm, b&w, sound, 2 min.
- Newsreel (1958), 16mm, b&w, sound, 2 min.
- What Is This (1985), U-Matic, b&w, sound, 9 min.
- The Kiss (1985), U-Matic, b&w, sound, 6 min.
** As a complement to this session, "Film-montagen I-III" (1965), by Peter Roehr, will be screened.
Total: 90 min.
Raphael Montañez Ortiz (born in Brooklyn, New York, January 30, 1934) is an American artist, educator, and founder of El Museo del Barrio, in East Harlem, New York. Montañez Ortiz's works are in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, etc.
He worked on the margins of cultural production, creating works from non-art objects, such as household items, which he would take apart in a process of deconstruction. While he was interested in avant-garde movements such as Dada and Fluxus, readings in psychology and anthropology influenced him more and acted as a link between his early series of Archaeological Findings and his interest in the insights of the unconscious mind.
Peter Roehr (1944 -1968) was a German Pop Art minimalist artist. He studied in Vincent Weber's class and graduated in 1966. His first works were made in 1962 and 1963. In May 1967 Roehr and Paul Maenz organized an innovative exhibition entitled "Serielle Formationen" at the Studio Galerie of Goethe University Frankfurt, which showed works by Carl Andre, Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Donald Judd, Piero Manzoni and Jan Schoonhoven.
His most famous work, "Film-Montagen I-III" (1965), was made on 16mm film from fragments of television commercials to create an aesthetic film and illustrate his concept of a temporal structure related to the principles of serial music. He would do the same with radio commercials in his 1966 work "Tonmontagen" (Sound Montages).
Free admission until full capacity.
https://www.cineinfinito.org/cineinfinito-raphael-montanez-ortiz/
