BIO
Pip Chodorov. Born April 13, 1965 in New York. Filmmaking and music composition since 1972. Studied cognitive science at the University of Rochester, NY and film semiotics at the University of Paris, France. Work in film distribution - previously Orion Classics, NYC; UGC, Paris; Light Cone, Paris; and, currently, Re:Voir Video, Paris, which he founded in 1994 (www.re-voir.com) and The Film Gallery, the first art gallery devoted excusively to experimental film (www.film-gallery.org). He is also co-founder of L'Abominable (www.l-abominable.org), a cooperative do-it-yourself film lab in Paris, and the moderator of the internet-based forum on experimental film, FrameWorks (mail to: frameworks-request@jonasmekasfilms.com “subscribe”).
PARTIAL FILMOGRAPHY
Numéro 4 1989 3' S8mm
Le Photographe 1990 5' S8mm Prix George Meliès, Metz 1991
Bronze Medal, NY Expo 1992
Collection Forum des Images Paris
Esquisse 1991 8' S8mm
Super Caddy 1993 4' S8/16mm
Crowe 1994 8' 16mm
End Memory 1995 5' 16mm Audience prize, Humboldt 1996
Fin de Siècle 1996 5' 16mm/S8mm
Russian Rushes 1997 10’ 16mm
US Rushes 1997 15' 16mm
Jonas Mekas in Paris 1997 4’ 16mm
Roland 1997 4’ 16mm
Mariage d’Armando 1997 3’ 16mm
Imaginary Friend 1998 4’ 16mm
Charlemagne 1998 7’ 16mm
NY98 1998 8’ 16mm
Atterrissage 1998 8’ S8mm
Anthology Film Archives 2002 7’ DV/16mm (Arte)
Charlemagne 2 – Piltzer 2002 22’ S8mm/16mm
Jonas Mekas Portrait 2002 10’ DV/S8mm/16mm (Arte)
Boris Lehman in No Man’s Land 2003 8’ DV/16mm (Arte)
A Visit to Stan Brakhage 2003 15’ DV/16mm (Arte)
The Spells of Kenneth Anger 2003 15' DV/16mm (Arte)
Frédérique Devaux portrait 2003 10’ DV/16mm (Arte)
Maurice Lemaître portrait 2004 15’ DV/16mm (Arte)
Robert Breer portrait 2004 10’ DV/16mm (Arte)
Jeff Scher portrait 2004 10’ DV/16mm (Arte)
Ken Jacobs portrait 2005 10’ DV/16mm (Arte)
Bill Morrison portrait 2006 10’ DV/16mm (Arte)
Faux Mouvements 2007 12’ 16mm
Butterfly Experiment 2008 4’ 16mm Part of Lucca Puccini project
Zevola recites Giordano Bruno 2009 7’ 16mm with students of F. Kubelka school, Vienna
Le Corps Vite 2010 1’ 35mm Trailer, Côté Court Festival, Pantin
Charlemagne 3: Pastrami Recordings 2010 31’ 16mm
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film 2010 82’ DCP
Chrysalis 2011 10’ 16mm collaboration Jurga Zabukaite
Postface à la brochure de 1942 2012 28’ 16mm as producer (Dir: S. Dorochenkov)
Camins Mesclat 2013 60 16mm (film performance with four musicians)
The Space Between Cities - Seoul 2015 5’ Super-16mm (part of 78’ feature collaboration)
Portrait of Patrick Bokanowski in His Studio 2017 26’ HD and Super-8mm
Amateur (Jang Jane music video for Mystic Ent.) 2017 5’ Super-8mm
Portrait de Jacques Perconte 2018 20’ DV/S8
Strainul 2018 9’ super-16mm
CHARLEMAGNE 2: PILTZER, FESTIVAL HISTORY:
59 Mostra Venise Nuovi Territori, Venice Italy, September 2002
Festival des nouveaux cinémas, Montreal Canada, October 2002
Paris Tout Court, Paris France, October 2002 (Grand prix de la presse)
Viper Festival, Basel Switzerland, October 2002 (International Film Prize)
London Film Festival, London England, November 2002
Némo Festival, Paris France, January 2003
Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Paris France, February 2003 Paris, November 2003 Berlin
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI, March 2003 (Technical Innovation prize)
Côté court, Pantin France, March 2003
Images Festival, Toronto Canada; April 2003
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck Germany, April 2003
Tribeca Film Festival, New York NY, May 2003
Hamburg Film Festival, June 2003
Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro Italy, June 2003
Chicago Underground Film Festival, August 2003
Bela Horizonte, Brazil, September 2003
Helsinki Avanto Festival, November 2003
Whitney Museum, Biennial, New York, March 2004
FREE RADICALS, FESTIVAL HISTORY:
100925 25FPS, Zagreb Croatia
101004 Lucca Film Festival, Lucca Italy
101019 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal Canada
101105 AFI Fest, Los Angeles, CA USA
101110 Cork Film Festival, Cork Ireland
101125 Ofni, Poitiers France
101207 Festival des Cinémas Différents, Paris France
101210 PAF! Olomouc, Czech Republic
110120 Cinematheque, Ljubljana Slovenia
110127 Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA USA
110128 Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam Holland
110213 SF Indie Fest, San Francisco, CA USA
110319 Europe Autour de l’Europe, Paris France
110403 Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Belgrade Serbia
110410 Belfast Film Festival, Belfast Ireland
110427 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck Germany
110428 Hot Docs, Toronto Canada
110430 Docville, Leuven Belgium
110701 Fest Anca, Zilina Slovakia
110714 Curtas, Vila do conde, Portugal
110719 Palic Film Festival, Palic Serbia
110721 New Horizons, Wroclaw Poland
110823 Zadar Film Festival, Zadar Croatia
110904 Favorites Film Festival, Berlin Germany
110915 Big Bear Lake Film Festival, Big Bear CA USA
110925 Message to Man, St Petersburg, Russia
110928 Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Vilnius Lithuania
111018 Signes de Nuit, Paris France
111021 London Film Festival, London UK
111103 Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds UK
111105 Festival Cine//B, Chile
111109 Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston, TX USA
111111 Filmer à Tout Prix, Brussels Belgium
111115 Muestra Internacional Documental, Bogota Columbia
111117 Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, New Brunswick Canada
111119 The Garage, Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow Russia
111123 Worm, Rotterdam Holland
120207 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris France
120210 Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Japan
120314 Minimalen, Trondheim Norway
120518 1st Festival of Experimental Films, Bratislava Slovakia
120615 Nuit du Film Expérimental, Geneva Switzerland
120803 Anthology Film Archives, New York USA
120922 “Pacific Meridian” Vladivostok International Film Festival, Vladivostok Russia
121018 DocLisboa, Lisbon Portugal
121208 Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France
130329 Paris Vu Par le Cinéma Expérimental, Forum des images – Paris France
130404 Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul Turkey
130506 Off and Free Film Festival, Seoul Korea
130901 Exis Festival, Seoul Korea, September 2013
131001 Dallas Videofest, Dallas TX USA, October 2013
131002 Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick Scotland, October 2013
131003 Artes Docs, Mexico, October 2013
140401 Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, April 2014
140501 Urban Nomad Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2014
140502 Sapporo Japan, May 2014
140601 Labo CCP, Lille, France, June 2014
140801 ZDP Lisbon Cultural Center, August 2014
160501 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, May 2016.
160701 Syros International Film Festival, Greece, July 2016.
160801 Aichi Triennale, Nagoya Japan, August 2016.