Andrew Noren

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Andrew Noren (born 1943 in Santa Fe , New Mexico , † May 2015 in South Carolina ) was an American avant-garde film director and producer .

life and work

Andrew Noren started as an autodidact and initially worked as a photographer before he discovered his love for film. He borrowed a film camera from fellow filmmakers and began making his first films.

Andrew Noren has been making avant-garde films since the mid-1960s. Since 1968 he has been working on a multi-diary film: The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse , which consists of numerous parts. Noren's films are some of the best examples of the transformative and abstract qualities of black and white films.

Andrew Noren took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Film Show: New American Cinema department with his film The Wind Variations (1969) .

In 1998 Noren founded The Research Source as a service provider for archives and film research.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1965: A Change of Heart, 81 minutes
  • 1965: Say Nothing, 30 minutes
  • 1967: Recognitions, 240 minutes
  • 1966: The New York Miseries, 80 minutes
  • 1967: Bathing
  • 1967: The Unclean
  • 1968: Huge Pupils (Part I of The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse ), 61 minutes
  • 1969: The Wind Variations, 18 minutes
  • 1972: Scenes from Life (Part II of The The New York Miseries ), 30 minutes
  • 1974: False Pretenses (Part II of The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse ), 67 minutes
  • 1975: The Phantom Enthusiast (Part III of The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse ), 70 minutes
  • 1979: Charmed Particles (Part IV of The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse ), 78 minutes
  • 1987: The Lighted Field (Part V of The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse ), 61 minutes
  • 1995: Imaginary Light, (Part VI of The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse ), 29 minutes
  • 2001: Time Being (Part VII of The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse )
  • 2003: Free to Go (Prelude) (Part VIII of The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse )
  • 2004: Free to Go (Interlude)
  • 2008: Aberration of Starlight (Part IX of The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse )

literature

  • documenta 5th survey of reality - visual worlds today ; Exhibition catalog (as a folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits). Kassel 1972.
  • documenta archive (ed.): Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .
  • R. Bruce Elder: A Body of Vision. Representations of the body in recent film and poetry . New ed.Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo 1998, ISBN 978-0-88920-328-0 , The Pneumatic Boy - The Films of Andrew Noren, pp. 316-350 (English, online [accessed December 29, 2015]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Hoberman: Andrew Noren, Avant-Garde Filmmaker, Fades to Black. In: nytimes.com. The New York Times , December 24, 2015, accessed December 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Andrew Noren. In: imdb.com. Internet Movie Database , accessed December 29, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Noren, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American avant-garde film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Fe , New Mexico , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 2015
Place of death South Carolina , United States