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Raphael Montañez Ortíz

Raphael Montañez Ortíz

Raphael Montañez Ortíz is an American artist, educator, and founder of El Museo del Barrio, in East Harlem, New York City.

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Movies Made By Raphael Montañez Ortíz (19)

Couch Destruction: Angel Release (2017)

Raphael Montañez Ortiz tells a story about an elderly Jewish couple that didn't watch television or listen to the radio. Instead they used to talk lovingly to each other for every day of their long marriage. And in a sense there was a glow around them. Wh ...

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Piano Destruction Concert: Dada con Mama (2014)

The concept of ritual-theater has been important since the early sixties in its production. It consists of the staging of violence through real acts that appeal to equally real and live emotions with an audience, that is, the action and the reaction that i ...

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The Conversation (1996)

1996 / U-Matic / color-b&w / sound / 1S / 12' 00 ...

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Introspective: Ortiz Art-Work Late 1950s - Late 1980s (1996)

A selection of works from the late 1950's - late 1980's which begins with one of a number of piano destruction concerts performed at the DESTRUCTION IN ART SYMPOSIUM held in London England in 1966 ...

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Ring Ring Rag Time (1996)

by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ 1996 / color-b&w / sound / 1S / 11' 15 ...

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Dance Number 22 (1993)

An experimental video based on repetition and crazy rhythm. ...

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Gonna Get Me a Gal (1991)

1991 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 1S / 3' 00 ...

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Here's Looking At You Kid (1991)

A remix film combining elements of found footage and structural filmmaking by combining Humphrey Bogart's quote from Casablanca with found footage of explosions, emphasized by repetition. ...

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You Bust Your Bunns (1986)

Starting in 1985, Montañez Ortiz begins a series of what he calls "digital/laser/videos"; he makes a large number of these "arresting, provocative and suggestive" works ...

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The Kiss (1985)

In his film work from the early 1980s, the artist used an Apple computer hooked up to a laser disc player. He scratched the laser disc, creating a stammering image, and a disconnection between time and space. ...

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What Is This (1985)

With the aid of the Computer Department at Rutgers University, Montañez Ortiz devised a software interface that allowed him to digitize a videotape by scratching it forward and backward, completely disrupting its temporality. ...

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Beach Umbrella (1985)

In the mesmerizing Beach Umbrella, 1985, a shapely woman in a white bathing suit tears across the sand at a panicked clip, pursued by the Technicolor trio of the Three Caballeros. When the woman at last collapses, the cartoon characters descend, seething i ...

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Dance Number (1985)

In his film work from the early 1980s, the artist used an Apple computer hooked up to a laser disc player. He scratched the laser disc, creating a stammering image, and a disconnection between time and space. ...

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Cowboy and "Indian" Film (1958)

The same year that Bruce Conner completed his famed A Movie, Montañez Ortiz destroyed a 16mm print of a banal Western, Winchester '73, with a tomahawk. He then placed the scraps of film in a medicine bag "to release the evil," intoned a ritual chant he ha ...

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Henny Penny: The Sky Is Falling (1958)

Metaphor on the massacre with the help of diverted images and a very varied soundtrack. The soundtrack was added in 1962. ...

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Newsreel (1958)

Randomly spliced pieces of a newsreel featuring notable news from 1946. ...

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Golf (1957)

"Golf" was the result of my attempt to make space in the frame, space that was non-film space, that would take over the film space. With each random hole punch, I chanted, 'Emptiness is fullness. ...

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Ritual Destruction of "Follow Through" (1957)

An 80-sec excerpt of the edge-to-edge scan of Raphael Montañez Ortiz's 1957 film "Golf"s 16mm celluloid print with punched holes across the frame lines and on the original soundtrack. ...

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Movies Starring Raphael Montañez Ortíz (3)

Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy (2018)

An associative view of the days, nights and characters that enclosed the life of Arthur Janov, which defines in the conclusion "It's never too late to have a happy childhood". Arthur Janov (1924-2017) was a classic instance of being the right charismatic ...

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Couch Destruction: Angel Release (2017)

Raphael Montañez Ortiz tells a story about an elderly Jewish couple that didn't watch television or listen to the radio. Instead they used to talk lovingly to each other for every day of their long marriage. And in a sense there was a glow around them. Wh ...

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Piano Destruction Concert: Dada con Mama (2014)

The concept of ritual-theater has been important since the early sixties in its production. It consists of the staging of violence through real acts that appeal to equally real and live emotions with an audience, that is, the action and the reaction that i ...

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