Raphael Montañez Ortíz Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

"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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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