Michel Auder’s films, which span in length from five minutes to multiple hours, are all edited from the thousands of hours of footage the artist has casually shot throughout his life. Early on, Auder made a habit of carrying portable video-recording equipment on a daily basis, and so amassed a biographical reel that frequently captured his fellow artists in the New York art scene, including such personalities as Cindy Sherman, Larry Rivers, and, most famously, Alice Neel. Auder did not consider his practice to be factually driven, however: “It was not in any way a documentary, not to be related as truth. This work reflects my own feelings.” Auder’s approach to filming was largely inspired by Andy Warhol’s screen tests, and the experimental films of exponents of the French New Wave like Jean-Luc Godard.
For the past 50 years, Michel Auder has been recording his personal life, creating films and videos that document his own experience and social milieu. His new work, Fictional Art Film, is a composite portrait of Auder's New York art world during the 70's ...
Watch NowThe Course of Empire is inspired by the eponymous series of paintings created by Thomas Cole from 1833 to 1836. A 'text film,' constructed from iPhone images of writings by James Baldwin, Donna J. Haraway, and Arthur Rimbaud, it also features excerpts from ...
Watch NowGulf War TV War was made in one of Auder's usual domestic modes: filming his TV, in which he documents American television news during the run-up to the first Gulf War, a mixture of crass propaganda and feeble journalism, image and text. Montages of antiwa ...
Watch NowShot on his phone in 2016, Michel Auder's latest work delves into stasis and acceleration at the same time: a compressed pack of digital memories indiscriminately flickering across the screen in rapid succession, separated by glimpses of nothingness. ...
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1967 (made in 2015) presents newly found and digitized silent 16mm films from the 1960s in the form of a four-part composition portraying a cast of artists, writers, musicians and actors who made up the bohemian underground of that time. The film recasts t ...
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Narcolepsy includes footage shot with a small hand-held digital video camera, mobile phones and underwater devices. The videos appear on one monitor at a time, as the rest remain blank. A transparent rabbit in bed is superimposed on a dog in the snow; hand ...
Watch NowReel-to-reel video by Michel Auder, recorded 1971, edited 2009. Features Auder's former wife Viva. ...
Watch Now16mm film transferred to SD video, recorded 1970, edited 2009. An excerpt from Michel Auder's film Cleopatra (1970). ...
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The Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly represented by the film's two clearly demarcated registers: that of the archival footage and that of the new, theatrical material. In his guise as "Michel Auder," ...
Watch NowHi8 video by Michel Auder recorded in 1989, edited in 2008. ...
Watch NowVideo interviews of passerby at the World Trade Center by artist Marcia Resnick. Recorded 1976, edited 2007. ...
Watch NowVideo recorded in 1986, edited 1993. "You know you're addicted to heroin when you begin proclaiming every bag to be your last." Auder says this from experience. Throughout the early and mid 1980s he was an addict. In this candid piece of disclosure he demo ...
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The thrill of cocaine becomes a metaphor for the consumption of images in this short montage. The title and lyrics come from Auder´s friend and 2001 Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Jacques Shuhl. The piece is composed entirely of still photographs from a variet ...
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Voyage's structure is simple. Coastal landscape footage and spectacular sunsets are combined with phone conversations recorded from a scanner that picks up cordless phone frequencies. ...
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A portrait of Rome that would have made Plutarch proud, Roman Variations was made during a residency at a studio provided by the gallerist Barbara Gladstone. ...
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From its fiery outset, Brooding Angles is decidedly gothic and the mood anxious. It is a dark rumination on the specter of authority, resistance and paranoia marking the close of Reagan's second term in office. Born in 1945, Auder came of age during the 19 ...
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Critic Gary Indiana wrote this satire and plays Dom, a rich, naive and young homosexual who moves into his sister's apartment. He immediately becomes involved with the lives of his quirky new neighbors. Rippley (Taylor Meade) is the chatty but depressed au ...
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In Michel Auder's short video Talking Head, a young girl (presumably his daughter) is occupied with a plastic toy-package of some sort. She talks incessantly about 'a nothing-nothing'; 'a thing that never came back again…. everyone was mad about it and s ...
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Michel Auder's Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered as a screening at The Kitchen in 1980 – mixes documentary elements such as footage of evangelical TV programs, books, c ...
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Michel reads a book about love, with pictures of naked ladies flashing by and a song by Laurie Anderson playing in the background. ...
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Through the use of original and appropriated video footage, Auder translates a religious sermon into an expression of love for this strikingly beautiful woman. This lovers tale opens with a photograph of Denise that is alternately caressed and crushed in t ...
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In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New York. In Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol, Auder captures revealing moments in Warhol's public and private life: the opening of the 1970 Whitney Museum retrosp ...
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In 1970 Valerie Solanas was released from a mental institution, two years after shooting Andy Warhol. Still unstable, she moved into the Chelsea Hotel where she penned a death threat to Michel Auder and his wife Viva. Using a soundtrack by Wagner, ...
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Warhol Superstars Viva and Louis Waldon are the main subjects of Auder's first film with synched sound, Keeping Busy (1969), which was billed as "a film novel about what they did to keep busy. ...
Watch NowFor the past 50 years, Michel Auder has been recording his personal life, creating films and videos that document his own experience and social milieu. His new work, Fictional Art Film, is a composite portrait of Auder's New York art world during the 70's ...
Watch NowThe Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly represented by the film's two clearly demarcated registers: that of the archival footage and that of the new, theatrical material. In his guise as "Michel Auder," ...
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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 ...
Watch NowVideo recorded in 1986, edited 1993. "You know you're addicted to heroin when you begin proclaiming every bag to be your last." Auder says this from experience. Throughout the early and mid 1980s he was an addict. In this candid piece of disclosure he demo ...
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Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française. ...
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Watch NowOne of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated 'diary films.' Like the contemporaneous films by O'Leary's more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trippily d ...
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The film begins with shots in Venice, passers-by seized from a hotel room, with Tina Aumont. It continues in Morocco during the filming of Bed of the Virgin, in a hotel room, people chat, play the guitar, smoke. ...
Watch NowHomeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I've made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not ...
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