Andrew Horn

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Andrew Horn (born September 16, 1952 in New York , NY - † August 24, 2019 in Berlin ) was an American film director .

life and career

Andrew Horn studied at the New York School of Art. There he received training as a dancer and filmmaker. He then worked as a graphic designer and began making his first films. In 1989 he moved to Berlin because of a DAAD scholarship . Since then he has worked here as a writer and filmmaker.

Andrew Horn made a name for himself through experimental dance films. Doomed Love (1983) was his first feature film. This and his second film The Big Blue (1988) were shown at the international forum of young films at the Berlinale (IFB) . He was a producer and writer on the film East Side Story (director: Dana Ranga ). In 2004 the film The Nomi Song was made about the singer of the same name, Klaus Nomi , who became an icon of the New York underground due to his voice ( countertenor ) and his shrill outfit and in the late 1970s became a cult figure of the New Wave scene . Most recently, he directed the documentary We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! . Until his death he worked on a film about Robert Wilson and his Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds.

Horn died as a result of cancer. He had a son.

Filmography

Doomed Love (1983) is an ironic parody of the myth of romantic love. This film is a kind of modern “opera”. He tells a romantic love triangle full of passions and obsessions. The focus is on an aging professor. The film takes place in front of bizarre painted backdrops and uses a stylized language that is made up of everyday clichés. Quotes from film and opera can also be found in this film, as well as the amalgamation of acoustic sound images with visual symbols. With this, Andrew Horn wants to explore our ideas of the concept of romantic love.

The script was written by Jim Neu (a former employee of Robert Wilson). The music was from Evan Lurie , a member of the Lounge Lizards band . Amy Sillmann and Pamela Wilson designed the expressionist film set. The main role played Bill Rice (known from Vortex , Subway Riders and Decoder ).

The Big Blue (1987), Andrew Horn's second feature film, must be seen as the stylized version of a well-known story. It is about a corrupt police officer whose wife is convinced that her husband is cheating on her. She hires Jack Kidd to look into the matter. This leads to misunderstandings. This film, too, is similarly expressionistic as Doomed Love and here, too, it is about exploring the interrelationships between image and sound content on the one hand and human language on the other. The focus is on the internal psychological processes in which this film differs significantly from Horn's first feature film.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Director Andrew Horn is dead. Accessed August 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ international forum for young films
  3. ↑ The Nomi Song, interview and trailer
  • Program booklet 14th international forum of young films, 18. – 28. February 1984, page 16
  • Program booklet 18th international forum of young films, 13. – 23. February 1988, page 7

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personal data
SURNAME Horn, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , NY
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2019
Place of death Berlin