Raphael Montañez Ortíz
Raphael Montañez Ortíz (b. 1934, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist perhaps best known for his radical performances of the 1960s as part of the Destructivist 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.
Films (33)
Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
2018
Couch Destruction: Angel Release
2017 · Director
Piano Destruction Concert: Dada con Mama
2014 · Director
Busy Bodies
1997 · Director
It's Coming Up
1997 · Director
The Conversation
1996 · Director, Editor
Introspective: Ortiz Art-Work Late 1950s - Late 1980s
1996 · Director
Piano Destruction Concert: Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall
1996 · Director
Ring Ring Rag Time
1996 · Director
That's Too Much
1996 · Director
Dance Number 22
1993 · Director, Editor
Our Thoughts Are Made of Clay: The Horsewomyn of the Apocalypse
1992 · Director, Editor
Gonna Get Me a Gal
1991 · Director, Editor
Here's Looking At You Kid
1991 · Director
If You Don't Want It Anymore
1988 · Director, Editor
Man Has Man Has Always
1987 · Director, Editor
Pushann Pushann
1986 · Director
Good and Evil
1986 · Director, Editor
I Spent My Last Breathe At Thee
1986 · Director, Editor
You Bust Your Bunns
1986 · Director, Editor
Couplett
1986 · Director, Editor
Stop Stop Stop Stop
1986 · Director, Editor
The First Born Female Child
1986 · Director, Editor
Welcome
1985 · Director, Editor
The Kiss
1985 · Editor, Director
What Is This
1985 · Director, Editor
Beach Umbrella
1985 · Director
Dance Number
1985 · Director
Cowboy and "Indian" Film
1958 · Director, Editor
Henny Penny: The Sky Is Falling
1958 · Director, Editor
Newsreel
1958 · Director, Editor
Golf
1957 · Director, Editor
Ritual Destruction of "Follow Through"
1957 · Director
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