Andrew Noren
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Huge Pupils
May 28, 1968In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse.
Reverberation
Apr 18, 1969"Reverberation began as an attempt at a portrayal, a representing of a life situation by way of film, and turned in the making of it into a presentation of the physical movement of film itself, stranding the photo-memory of persons/objects/their relationships in a cinematic force-field wherein images are offered up and simultaneously swept away by conflicting energies. Sound as it comes from a speaker has its own quality. No matter how close it comes in reproducing sound of living beings or objects, this quality is always the sound of the projector, the wires, the tubes and the speakers. This is its actuality. And it can be heard and experienced as sound, a form of energy." -Ernie Gehr
GROUP VII:
PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent)
PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent)
These films are personal light portraits. I consider them unique and beautiful.
Birth of a Nation
Aug 06, 1997Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Documentary
Huge Pupils
May 28, 1968In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse.
Free to Go (Interlude)
Mar 03, 2004Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The fool’s paradise of the illusory window is savored and shattered and seen for what it is.
Charmed Particles
Dec 02, 1978Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow, ‘something.’ What lies at the heart of each atom is nothing... the beast at the heart of the labyrinth... and from that nothing comes the something we call the world. Being emanates from nothing, and vice versa. Oldest question in the world: "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
Charmed Particles
Dec 02, 1978Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow, ‘something.’ What lies at the heart of each atom is nothing... the beast at the heart of the labyrinth... and from that nothing comes the something we call the world. Being emanates from nothing, and vice versa. Oldest question in the world: "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
Charmed Particles
Dec 02, 1978Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow, ‘something.’ What lies at the heart of each atom is nothing... the beast at the heart of the labyrinth... and from that nothing comes the something we call the world. Being emanates from nothing, and vice versa. Oldest question in the world: "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
The Lighted Field
Oct 05, 1987Ghost pictures from the "other" world, which is this world. The ghost is in love, at work, at play with bright companions. Flutter of phantoms, trick of light, sleight of the eye. A comedy of mirrors. Love advice from the grave... remember you must die.
Imaginary Light
Jan 01, 1994"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle, alive and moving, making shadow and, therefore, time."
Documentary
The Wind Variations
Jan 01, 1968A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze.
The Unclean
Aug 12, 1967Scenes from Life: Golden Brain Mantra
Jan 01, 1972"A double projection of buildings exploding in slow motion, in forward and reverse, that 'was intended as mantra, to run perpetually, viewer to enter/leave at any point." - Scott MacDonald
Say Nothing
Jan 01, 1965The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation of an actress/character that hovers between documentary and fiction" - Scott MacDonald
A Change of Heart
Dec 31, 1965Noren's first film is a Godard-inspired experimental narrative that was lost in a fire in 1970
A Portrait of Ernie Gehr
Jan 01, 1968A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of Non-Industrial Cinema Within Our Cultural Heritage in 1984.
Recognitions
Dec 31, 1967The New York Miseries
Dec 31, 1966"Single-take, 100-foot rolls of 16mm film in which Noren documented 'absolutely every aspect of my life.'" - Scott MacDonald
False Pretenses
Apr 21, 1974
The Phantom Enthusiast
Jan 01, 1975
Time Being
Oct 13, 2001“Cinema isn’t materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern devices, since the first opening of the first animal eyelid…scene one, take one.... We invent the world as we are seeing it. Anything can happen” (Andrew Noren)
Time Being
Oct 13, 2001“Cinema isn’t materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern devices, since the first opening of the first animal eyelid…scene one, take one.... We invent the world as we are seeing it. Anything can happen” (Andrew Noren)
Aberration of Starlight
Jan 06, 2008“Aberration of starlight: the apparent displacement of a star resulting from Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. It depends on the ratio of Earth’s orbital speed to the speed of light and Earth’s direction of motion and thus provides confirmation that the Earth orbits the Sun and not the reverse.” Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Noren’s last major work is a visual symphony of astonishing variations on light, shadow, time, and spatial illusion. This is what Noren, quoting Lao-Tsu, called “practicing eternity” and “what the light was like.” According to Noren, “working electronically provides a kind of non-mechanical fluidity, a sense of floating, if you will. For me the digital apparatus is like a great visual piano of wonderful sophistication.”
