Raphael Montañez Ortíz Movies

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...

"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...

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...

One of Ortiz’s final computer-laser-videos, marking a significant point in his career as an interdisciplinary artist and pioneer of the...

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...

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...

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

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

One of director Ortiz’s final computer-laser-videos, marking a significant point in his career as an interdisciplinary artist and pioneer of...

A several-second passage depicting a woman's agitated face is repeated in a loop that decomposes, distorts and reassembles her expression and gesture...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz manipulates and distorts a scene from the classic film Freaks using digital editing techniques to give the scene...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz takes a scene from the film Winchester '73 and creates a redux of his 1958 works 'Cowboy' and 'Indian Film'...

With the aid of the Computer Department at Rutgers University, Montañez Ortiz devised a software interface that allowed him to digitize a...

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...

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

One of Ortiz’s final computer-laser-videos, marking a significant point in his career as an interdisciplinary artist and pioneer of the...

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...

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

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...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz cycles through two clips: footage of a rocket launch and a clip of a Wile E. Coyote cartoon and manipulates and...