Thom Andersen
Thom Andersen (* 1943 in Chicago ) is an American film director and film scholar .
life and work
Thom Andersen was born in 1943 in Chicago and taught from 1987 until his retirement as professor of film theory at the California Institute of the Arts .
Andersen's film Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975, color, 59 minutes) premiered in 1975 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was shown at documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 . On the one hand, the film tells biographical information about the photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), on the other hand, his historical series recordings are animated by movements. Both are linked in an irritating way.
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, black and white, 169 minutes) is a documentary that was created from footage on the subject of Los Angeles and our own documentary recordings.
In Reconversão (2012, color, 68 minutes) he portrayed the work of the Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura on the basis of 17 works and shows their origins and backgrounds with the help of quotations from the architect. Andersen filmed in the style of the early form of cinema with only two frames per second for increased attention and effect of the images shown.
Web links
- Thom Andersen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 2: Photography, film and video; Kassel, page 196, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- ↑ CalArts Thom Andersen accessed on June 6, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Courtisane festival 2015, Artist in focus: Thom Andersen Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer accessed on June 6, 2015 (Dutch)
- ↑ film.at Drei Lives , accessed on June 6, 2015.
- ↑ Stopsmiling Blade Runner Is a City Planner's Dream: An Interview with Thom Andersen , accessed June 6, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andersen, Thom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film director and film scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |