Ken Kobland Films

Filmography

2005 IDEAS OF ORDER IN CINQUE TERRE
(32:00) Digital Video, DVD

AWARD:
Juror's Citation Black Maria Festival
SCREENINGS:
Media City Festival, Ontario 2006
Shadow Festival, Amsterdam 2005
EXIS Festival, Seoul,Korea 2005
InVideo, Milan, Italy 2005
Festival Nouveau Cinema, Montreal 2005
2003 BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS / THE ANGST ARCHIVE
(45:00) Digital Video, DVD
AWARDS: Geko Award - CinemaTexas 2003; 1st Prize - Black Maria Film Fest 2004
SCREENINGS: Media and Architecture, Graz, Austria 2005; Berlin International Forum 2004
2001 THE WOOSTER GROUP ON TOUR
(60:00) Digital Video, available on The Wooster Group's HOUSE/LIGHTS DVD
The New York experimental theater company on tour, installing their production of HOUSE/LIGHTS, which combines Gertrude Stein's text, DR. FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS, with OLGA'S HOUSE OF SHAME. In Glasgow, Scotland, 2000.
1999
ARISE! WALK DOG EAT DONUT
(30:00) Digital Video
AWARDS: 8th Biennial of the Moving Image, Genvea; Film+Arch, Graz, Austria
SCREENINGS: Rotterdam Film Fetsival, 2000; VideoART, Lucarno.
1998-ongoing MANEZH SQUARE 1:20pm/Sept/ 16, 1990. Moscow, USSR.
Web Site http://www.kenkoblandfilms.com/manezh/

Joint internet film project with E.Jay Sims and Bill Waldman, NYC
1996 THE SHANGHAIED TEXT
(20:00) Video and 16mm film
AWARDS: San Francisco Golden Gate Awards
SCREENINGS: New York Video Festival; Geneva Video Week '97; VideoKunst, Karlsruhe
1994 END CREDITS
(7:00) Video.
Credit Sequence for Jill Godmilow film on Ron Vawter's "Roy Cohen/Jack Smith"
SCREENING: New York Film Festival /Video, 1994
1994 MOSCOW X
(58:00) Video
Produced by ITVS.
Distributed by PBS, November,'94
AWARD: Montreal International, Jurors Prize 1996
SCREENINGS: New York Film Fest./Video, 1995; ARTE, broadcast, Summer, 1996
1992 STUPA
(60:00) Video
SCREENING: Ars Electronica Austria 1994
1990 ONE-HOUR/DALLAS, TX
60:00 Video.
Produced by LaSept, Paris
Broadcast: La Sept, 1991
1990 FOTO-ROMAN
(26:00) Video [a radio/video]
Produced by The Kitchen, New York.
AWARD: Montbelaird, First Prize. 1992; Atlanta Film Fest, Best Experimental Video. 1992
1988 BERLIN:TOURIST JOURNAL
(19:00) Video
AWARDS: San Francisco Golden Gate Award; Black Maria Award 1990
1986 FLAUBERT DREAMS OF TRAVEL
(20:00) Video
[made for The Wooster Group production of "St. Anthony"]
AWARD: San Francisco Golden Gate Award, 1987
1984 THE COMMUNISTS ARE COMFORTABLE
(50:00) 16mm
Note: Revised 1988 - 3/4" VIDEO MASTER ONLY
SCREENINGS: Berlin International Forum and the Whitney Biennial, 1985
1983 MIAMI MAN IN LANDSCAPE LOOP
(18:00) Video
[ made for The Wooster Group production, "LSD"]
1981 LANDSCAPE AND DESIRE
(46:00) 16mm
SCREENING: Whitney Biennial, 1983
1980 POINT JUDITH FILM
(24:00) 16mm
[part of a performance piece by THE WOOSTER GROUP / Eliz. LeCompte & Spalding Gray, 1980-81]
1979 NEAR AND FAR/NOW AND THEN
(28:00) 16mm
1978/79 NAYATT SCHOOL FILM
(25:00) 16mm
[exhibited as part of "Nayatt School", a performance piece by THE WOOSTER GROUP / Eliz. LeCompte & Spalding Gray]
1977/78 VESTIBULE [In 3 Episodes]
(24:00) 16mm
AWARD: Hyeres, France Critics and Jury Prize 1979
1976 FRAME
(10:00) 16mm
AWARD: Black Maria Award
SCREENINGS: Film Forum, NYC; Oberhausen
1975 THE TOOTH OF CRIME
90:00 16mm
Co-directed with James McCarthy.
[the Performance Group's production of the Sam Shepard play]
SCREENING: Whitney Museum New American Filmmakers Series, 1975
1973 HOUDINI
(3:00) 16mm
(w. James McCarthy)

Recent Cinematography

2005 THE GATES - Cristo and Jeanne-Claude's Central Park Project - Cinematographer
Maysles Bros. Films, release date 2006
2000-03 ART 21 - Cinematographer
Digi-Beta - On-going series of Artists Portraits. Produced by ART 21 for WGBH-Boston.
1999 JIM BIDGOOD - "PINK NARCISSUS" - Cinematographer
30:00 - DVm Documentary on the photographer and filmmaker. Produced for ZDF-Germany.
1998 CHUCK CLOSE - Cinematographer
60:00 - Super-16 and Digi-Beta.
Writer / Producer / Director: Marion Cajori
Executive Producers: The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc. and MUSE
* Emmy Nominations: Director, Cinematography and Editing
1998 JACKSON POLLOCK - Cinematographer
30:00 - DVm Documentary portrait. Produced for the OVATION network.
1997 LUCAS SAMARRAS - Cinematographer
DVm Documentary portrait. Produced for the OVATION network.
1997 LOUISE BOURGEOIS - Cinematographer
20:00 - 16mm Documentary on her exhibition at the Prada Gallery, MILAN.
Producer / Director: Marion Cajori
Executive Producer: The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc.
1997 LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S NEW YORK - Cinematographer
60:00 - 16mm. Produced by Perry Films for PBS-TV.
1996 THE GYPSY KINGS - Cinematographer
60:00 - 16mm Documentary. Produced by Perry Films for PBS-TV.
1995 WRONG GUYS (in-progress) - Director of Photography/Editor.
90:00 - 35mm /DV Feature narrative. Directed by Eliz. LeCompte with The Wooster Group, NY.
1995 OFF THE MENU: THE STORY OF CHASEN'S - Cinematographer
90:00 - 16mm Documentary on the famous Hollywood restaurant.
* One the 10 Best documentaries, 1997. USA Today
1994 IN THE SHADOW OF MARILYN - Cinematographer
60:00 - 16mm Documentary/Fiction. Produced by ZDF-TV, Germany.
1994 COUNTRY RHYTHM AND BLUES - Cinematographer
60:00 - 16mm Music Documentary. Produced by Perry Films for PBS-TV.
1993 EDWARD HOPPER/AMERICAN - Cinematographer
60:00 - Video Documentary/Fiction. Produced by ZDF-TV, Germany.
1992 JOAN MITCHELL : Portrait of an Abstract Painter - Cinematographer
60:00 - 16mm Documentary.
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
1990 WHITE HOMELAND COMMANDO - Director of Photography
60:00 - Video Fiction narrative by THE WOOSTER GROUP, NY.

EDITING
2006 BROADWAY SEPTEMBER 2001
Montage Design for 5 hour, 4 screen projected installation by Craigie Horsfield
Jeu Du Paume 2006; National Museum, Lisbon 2006.
2002,04 EL HIERRO
Montage Design for 8 hour, 4 screen projected installation by Craigie Horsfield
DOCUMENTA 2002; Whitney Biennial 2004.

OTHER MEDIA WORK
1991 JULIUS CAESAR
Theatrical projections on laserdisc for adaptation of Shakespeare's play directed by Oscar Eustis
Mark Taper Forum, L.A., California.



Updated: January 7, 2006

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