Raphael Montañez Ortíz Movies

Raphael Montañez Ortíz takes a scene of the birth of Jesus taken from the television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth and distorts and...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz takes a scene from the film Phantom Lady and manipulates and distorts it using digital video software to create...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz distorts the famous line from Gregory Peck's performance in the 1956 adaptation of Moby Dick using digital...

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...

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...

Performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Raphael Montañez Ortíz distorts scenes from assorted World War II-era newsreels using digital editing technology to create a...

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

An experimental video based on repetition and crazy rhythm.

Similar to the work of Martin Arnold, this outré and charged video-work employs footage from a Stroheim vehicle with film of a woman sexually...

Starting in 1985, Montañez Ortiz begins a series of what he calls “digital/laser/videos”; he makes a large number of these...

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

Raphael Montañez Ortíz visually manipulates a scene of Spencer Tracy in his role from the classic film San Francisco to create a...