Andrew Noren (born 1943, Santa Fe) has been making moving image art for the past 40 years, and is perhaps cinema's greatest practitioner of light, shadow, visual texture, and velocity. His recent digital work celebrates the primal nature of vision and the mind's construct of duration.
Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The fool's paradise of the illusory window is savored and shattered and seen for what it is. ...
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"Cinema isn't materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern devices, since the first opening of the first animal eyelid…scene one, take one.... We invent the world as we are seeing it. ...
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"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle, alive and moving, making shadow and, therefore, time. ...
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Ghost pictures from the "other" world, which is this world. The ghost is in love, at work, at play with bright companions. Flutter of phantoms, trick of light, sleight of the eye. A comedy of mirrors. Love advice from the grave... remember you must die. ...
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Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible 'nothing' becoming, somehow, 'something.' What lies at the heart of each atom is nothing... the beast at the heart of the labyrinth... and from that no ...
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A rhythmic study of materiality and melancholy in human form. ...
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"A double projection of buildings exploding in slow motion, in forward and reverse, that 'was intended as mantra, to run perpetually, viewer to enter/leave at any point. ...
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In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse. ...
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A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze. ...
Watch NowA brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of Non-Industrial Cinema Within Our Cultural Heritage in 1984. ...
Watch Now"Single-take, 100-foot rolls of 16mm film in which Noren documented 'absolutely every aspect of my life. ...
Watch NowNoren's first film is a Godard-inspired experimental narrative that was lost in a fire in 1970 ...
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Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own "nation of cinema," a vital ...
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GROUP VII: PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent) These films are personal light portraits. I consider them unique and beautiful. ...
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"Reverberation began as an attempt at a portrayal, a representing of a life situation by way of film, and turned in the making of it into a presentation of the physical movement of film itself, stranding the photo-memory of persons/objects/their relationsh ...
Watch NowIn 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse. ...
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