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Ken Kobland, 2005
IDEAS OF ORDER IN CINQUE TERRE
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Biography
Born in The Bronx, New York, September, l946. Graduated in Art with a minor in Philosophy from Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1969. Attended Columbia University School of Architecture, 1967-68. Since 1975, Mr. Kobland has produced independent film, video and media art works, including a number of performance/media pieces for theatrical presentation in collaboration with THE WOOSTER GROUP, the New York based experimental theater.
Mr. Kobland's work has been included in numerous film and video festivals such as: Ann Arbor, CinemaTexas, Bellevue, Sinking Creek, Athens (Ohio), Atlanta Film Festival, American Film Festival (Film-as-Art), San Francisco Film Festival (Golden Gate Awards), Black Maria Film/Video Festival, Montreal, Oberhausen (West Germany), Hyeres (France), Melbourne (Australia), Montbeliard (France), Rotterdam, Video Week (Geneva), World-Wide (Holland), Lucarno (Switzerland), VideoKunst (Karlsruhe), the New York Video and Film Festival, and at the Berlin Film Festival - International Forum. In addition his work has been represented in group shows in London, Paris, Sidney, Budapest, Warsaw, Amsterdam,Tokyo and Bangkok. |
On The Web
Ken Kobland's Film Projects
Recent Films
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS / THE ANGST ARCHIVE (2003)
New York Video Festival, Berlin Film Festiva-International Forum, Jerusalem Film Festival, Moving-Image,Geneve, IMPAKT Festival,Holland, Black Maria Film Festival, (1st Prize), CinemaTexas, (Gecko Award).
THE WOOSTER GROUP ON TOUR (2001)
The New York experimental theater company on tour mounting their production HOUSE/LIGHTS,in Glasgow, Scotland, 2000.
ARISE, WALK DOG, EAT DONUT (1999)
Berlin International Film Festival 2000, New York Video Festival, Lucarno Video Art, World Wide Video Fest-Amsterdam, Rotterdam Film Festival. It has won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2000, 8th Biennale of Moving Images-Geneva and at Film und Architektur Biennale-Graz in 1999.
THE SHANGHIAED TEXT (1996)
New York Video Festival, VideoArt-Karlsruhe, Germany, Media Biennial-Warsaw, 8th International Video Week-Geneva, The Rotterdam Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, and BlackMaria Festival. It won awards at Three-Rivers Film /Video Festival and at Ann Arbor. In 1998 it was shown on thirteen-WNET, NY as part of the series REEL NY.
MOSCOW X (1994)
Produced by ITVS and aquired byARTE-TV, the French/German cultural channel for broadcast in Europe in 1998.
WRONG GUYS (1997)
Work-in-Progress in collaboration with THE WOOSTER GROUP, part of the Whitney Biennial in 1997, at the Independent Feature Film Market, NYC in 1997 and the Berlin and Rotterdam Feature Film Market in 1998.
Other Films
END CREDITS (1994)
STUPA (1992)
FOTO-ROMAN (1990)
BERLIN: TOURIST JOURNAL (1988)
FLAUBERT DREAMS OF TRAVEL (1986)
THE COMMUNISTS ARE COMFORTABLE (1984/88)
LANDSCAPE AND DESIRE (1980)
VESTIBULE (1977/78)
FRAME (1976)
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Grants and Awards
Rockefeller Foundation - 2001
Emmy Nomination - cinematography, "Chuck Close,"1999
International Centre for Video Creation - Montbelaird, France, 1992
ITVS (Independent Television Service), 1992
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1989
DAAD (Berliner Kunstlerprogram), 1985
NYFA (New York Foundation on the Arts), 1987
AFI (American Film Institute), 1979
MacDowell Fellowships, 1978, 1989
Jerome Foundation, 1980
Massachuetts Council on the Humanities, 1983 (with The Wooster Group)
NEA, 1979, 1988, 1979 (with Lee Breuer)
NEA , 1982 and 1986 (with The Wooster Group)
NYSCA, 1982,1990, 1988 and 1995 (with The Wooster Group)
CAPS, 1978
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Editor
Producers / Directors: Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach
Executive Producer: The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc. 2008
Chuck Close
Writer / Producer / Director: Marion Cajori
Executive Producers: The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc. and MUSE 2007
Emmy Nominations: Director, Cinematography and Editing
BROADWAY SEPTEMBER 2001
Artist / Director: Craigie Horsfield
5 hour, 4 screen projected installation
Jeu Du Paume 2006; National Museum, Lisbon 2006
and EL HIERRO
8 hour, 4 screen projected installation
DOCUMENTA 2002; Whitney Biennial 2004
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Cinematography
Mr. Kobland's professional cinematography is featured in a variety of
American productions that include:
Documetaries:
Art 21 (for PBS)
produced by ART 21 for WGBH-Boston
Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter
Writer / Director: Marion Cajori
Producers: Marion Cajori and Christian Blackwood (CBPI)
Executive Producer: Art Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc.
Awards: Gold Plaque, Chicago Film Festival, 1992; Grand Prize, International Film Festival for Films on Art (FIFA), Montreal,1993
Chuck Close
Writer / Producer / Director: Marion Cajori
Executive Producers: The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc. and MUSE
Emmy Nominations: Director, Cinematography and Editing
Louise Bourgeois
Producer / Director: Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach
Executive Producer: The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc.
Off The Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
with Robert Pulcini and Shari Berman
Music and Entertainment Specials for PBS:
The Gypsy Kings,
Leonard Bernstein's New York,
Country Rhythm and Blues
with Perry Films
European Productions include:
James Bidgood,
In the Shadow of Marilyn
ans Edward Hopper (for ZDF-TV)
with producer/director, Wolfgang Hastert
Feature Film Cinematography includes:
White Homeland Command
and Wrong Guys
with THE WOOSTER GROUP
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Distributors
Film and video works are available from the following sources:
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