Raphael Montañez Ortíz Movies

1991 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 1S / 3' 00

A several-second passage depicting a woman's agitated face is repeated in a loop that decomposes, distorts and reassembles her expression and gesture...

Similar to the work of Martin Arnold, this outré and charged video-work employs footage from a Stroheim vehicle with film of a woman sexually...

One of Ortiz’s final computer-laser-videos, marking a significant point in his career as an interdisciplinary artist and pioneer of the...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz visually manipulates a scene of Spencer Tracy in his role from the classic film San Francisco to create a...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz takes a scene from the film Winchester '73 and creates a redux of his 1958 works 'Cowboy' and 'Indian Film'...

Performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Starting in 1985, Montañez Ortiz begins a series of what he calls “digital/laser/videos”; he makes a large number of these...

An 80-sec excerpt of the edge-to-edge scan of Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s 1957 film "Golf"s 16mm celluloid print with punched holes across...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz takes a scene of the birth of Jesus taken from the television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth and distorts and...

A selection of works from the late 1950's - late 1980's which begins with one of a number of piano destruction concerts performed at the DESTRUCTION...

With the aid of the Computer Department at Rutgers University, Montañez Ortiz devised a software interface that allowed him to digitize a...

An experimental video based on repetition and crazy rhythm.