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Raphael Montañez Ortíz
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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 h…
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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.
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1997
Busy Bodies
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1997
It's Coming Up
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1996
The Conversation
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1996
Piano Destruction Concert: Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall
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1996
Ring Ring Rag Time
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1996
That's Too Much
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1996
Introspective: Ortiz Art-Work Late 1950s - Late 1980s
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1993
Dance Number 22
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1991
Here's Looking At You Kid
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1991
Gonna Get Me a Gal
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1988
If You Don't Want It Anymore
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1987
Man Has Man Has Always
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1986
Pushann Pushann
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1986
Good and Evil
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1986
I Spent My Last Breathe At Thee
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1986
Stop Stop Stop Stop
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1986
Couplett
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1986
You Bust Your Bunns
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1986
The First Born Female Child
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1985
Welcome
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1985
The Kiss
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1985
Beach Umbrella
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1985
Dance Number
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1985
What Is This
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1958
Newsreel
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1958
Cowboy and "Indian" Film
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1958
Henny Penny: The Sky Is Falling
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1957
Golf
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1957
Ritual Destruction of "Follow Through"
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