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Movies Made By James Richards (8)

When We Were Monsters (2020)

The starting point was a video tape of projection footage made by the artist Gretchen Bender, who turned clinical images of infections, deformities, and morbid injuries into an abject flicker film. Reinke and Richards expanded Bender's medical gaze into a ...

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What weakens the flesh is the flesh itself (2017)

A film tribute, portrait and investigation of the set designer, photographer and actor Albrecht Becker. Staying with Becker's self-portraits, artists Steve Reinke and James Richards pair public and private images in ways that challenge and re-signify one a ...

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Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (2015)

Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to "Boogie-Woogie Queen" to groundbreaking composer to mentoring some of the greatest musicians of all time, she never ceased to astound those who heard her play. But for a B ...

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Rosebud (2013)

The censored images in Rosebud were shot in a library in Tokyo. I came across them by accident while researching there in the spring of 2012. The books, monographs on Mapplethorpe, Tillmans and May Ray, were being imported into Japan from Europe when they ...

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Not Blacking Out, Just Turning The Lights Off (2011)

This work is comprised of rhythmic assemblings of sounds and images extracted from various sources, including the internet and DVDs, as well as diaristic material gathered by the artist and his friends. Various light distortions created with a small portab ...

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The Misty Suite (2009)

In The Misty Suite Richards links three very different films by their similar zoom speeds: a shot of a young Brooke Shields in Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), falling asleep in class; a girl drawing an eye in an instructional video; and nebulous star clust ...

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Practice Theory (2006)

A portrait of distraction, with sampled monologue from online video essay about the Roland 303 synthesizer read over collaged images on the studio desk. Intercut by the back of a porn DVD and the MGM logo. ...

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