[Frameworks] Fwd: Scratch Online : DÉFAIRE LE CINÉMA - UNE DISCUSSION AVEC RAPHAEL MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ

Tue Mar 23 16:31:33 CDT 2021

Hello all,

I'm forwarding information about an online discussion that will take place
tomorrow (Wednesday) with the artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz about the films
and videos he made in the late 1950s and in the 1980s-90s. A selection of
his works is already viewable online at the link specified below. Hope some
of you can join in!

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 -  English below <#m_516062018829553354_english>

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Scratch Projection
*UNMAKING CINEMA*
*A CONVERSATION WITH RAPHAEL MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ*

*Online program from Monday 22 to Sunday 28 March 2021Round table on
Wednesday 24 March 2021*

*Light Cone presents a selection of recently digitized films and videos by
Raphael Montañez Ortiz
<https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-682-raphael-montanez-ortiz> and
proposes a conversation with the artist in the company of art historians
Chon Noriega and Kevin Hatch.*

*Raphael Montañez Ortiz* (b. 1934, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist
perhaps best known for his radical performances of the 1960s as part of the
Destructionist movement which he helped to articulate. Not many know that
he is also a pioneer of found footage cinema who deserves greater
recognition within the American filmic avant-garde. Starting in 1957, he
produced a number of singular works by subjecting 16mm prints of
commercially- or institutionally-produced films to a cut-up method inspired
by Yaqui shamanic practices, a kind of ritualistic chance operation
intended to break down their structure and thoroughly undermine their
discursive power. In the mid-1980s, Montañez Ortiz continued his critical
deconstructions of commercial cinema, this time exploring a novel format:
the laser disc. Having created a special interactive setup at the computer
lab of Rutgers University, the artist transformed micro-moments from
classic films into looping, stuttering choreographies that, through
obsessive repetition, reveal the tacit gestualities and subconscious inner
dynamics of these seemingly innocent Hollywood scenes.

These works have recently acquired a renewed visibility thanks to a
digitization project led by the Chicano Studies Research Center of UCLA. In
addition, in 2020 El Museo del Barrio published the first monograph on the
artist, *Raphael Montañez Ortiz
<https://checkout.square.site/buy/4ZRNZQ2CEUAV2LZRD73TYFHW>*, edited by
Javier Rivero Ramos, and *Found Footage Magazine
<https://foundfootagemagazine.com/issues/issue-6/>* dedicated its March
2020 issue (nº6) to his work.

*ROUND TABLE WITH RAPHAEL MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ*
*Wednesday 24 March 2021 at 6pm (GMT+1)*

Raphael Montañez Ortiz will converse with art historians Chon Noriega and
Kevin Hatch on *March 24, 2021, at 6pm (GMT+1)* via Zoom. You can register
for the event by following *this link
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_72VnkSr9RfekabtdXNDZeQ>*.

*Chon Noriega*, professor at the department of Film, Television and Digital
Media at UCLA and director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center,
which holds the archives of Raphael Montañez Ortiz. Art historian, curator
and author of numerous books, including *Shot in America: Television, the
State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema* (University of Minnesota Press,
2000) and *Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement* (University
of California Press, 2008).

*Kevin Hatch*, associate professor of Art History at Binghampton
University, researcher with an interest in postwar American art and author
of *Looking for Bruce Conner* (MIT Press, 2012).

*FILM PROGRAM*
*From Monday 22 to Sunday 28 March 2021*

*This program will be available for streaming free of charge from Monday,
March 22 to Sunday, March 28, 2021, on this page
<https://lightcone.org/en/news-682-defaire-le-cinema-une-rencontre-avec-raphael-montanez-ortiz>.*

* GOLF *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1957 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 1' 09 *
* COWBOY AND "INDIAN" FILM *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1958 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 2' 00 *
* HENNY PENNY: THE SKY IS FALLING *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1958 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 8' 43 *
* NEWS REEL *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1958 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 2' 00 *
* THE KISS *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1985 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 6' 00 *
* WHAT IS THIS *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1985 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 9' 15 *
* YOU BUST YOUR BUNNS *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1986 / U-Matic / color / sound / 5' 30 *
* GONNA GET ME A GAL *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1991 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 3' 00 *
* DANCE NUMBER 22 *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1993 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 7' 22 *
* THE CONVERSATION *
by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ
* 1996 / U-Matic / color-b&w / sound / 12' 00 *

MORE INFORMATION

Registration link (Zoom)
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_72VnkSr9RfekabtdXNDZeQ>
Facebook event <https://www.facebook.com/events/4176125992479836>
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