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.re-voir.com/gallery). He is also co-founder of L'Abominable, a cooperative do-it-yourself film lab in Paris, and the moderator of the internet-based forum on experimental film, FrameWorks (mail to: listserv@listserv.aol.com, “subscribe frameworks”).

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 portrait  2002    7’   DV/16mm (Arte)

          Charlemagne 2 – Piltzer           2002    22’  S8mm/16mm

          Jonas Mekas Portrait              2002    10’  DV/S8mm/16mm (Arte)

          Boris Lehman 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

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

Please download stills from : http://www.re-voir.com/pip