Andrew Noren

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Birth of a Nation TrailerHome Movies 1971-81 TrailerGroup VII: Portrait of Diana/Portrait of Andrew Noren Trailer

Andrew Noren (born 1943, Santa Fe) has been making moving image art for the past 40 years, and is perhaps cinema's greatest practitioner of light, shadow, visual texture, and velocity. His recent digital work celebrates the primal nature of vision and the mind's construct of duration.

Most Popular Andrew Noren Trailers

Total trailers found: 21

Huge Pupils Trailer (1968)

28 May 1968

In 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.

The Unclean Trailer (1967)

12 August 1967

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

Home Movies 1971-81 Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Free to Go (Interlude) Trailer (2004)

03 March 2004

Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time.

Recognitions Trailer (1967)

31 December 1967

A series of eight portraits. Lost in a fire in 1970

Say Nothing Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation ofd

The Phantom Enthusiast Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

A rhythmic study of materiality and melancholy in human form.

False Pretenses Trailer (1974)

21 April 1974

Part II of Andrew Noren's The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

Charmed Particles Trailer (1978)

02 December 1978

Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow, ‘something.

The New York Miseries Trailer (1966)

31 December 1966

"Single-take, 100-foot rolls of 16mm film in which Noren documented 'absolutely every aspect of my life.

Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)

06 August 1997

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.

The Wind Variations Trailer (1968)

01 January 1968

A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze.

A Portrait of Ernie Gehr Trailer (1968)

01 January 1968

A 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.

Time Being Trailer (2001)

13 October 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.

Imaginary Light Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind.

Group VII: Portrait of Diana/Portrait of Andrew Noren Trailer (1972)

30 March 1972

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.

Aberration of Starlight Trailer (2008)

06 January 2008

“Aberration of starlight: the apparent displacement of a star resulting from Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun.

Reverberation Trailer (1969)

18 April 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.

The Lighted Field Trailer (1987)

05 October 1987

Ghost pictures from the "other" world, which is this world. The ghost is in love, at work, at play with bright companions.

A Change of Heart Trailer (1965)

31 December 1965

Noren's first film is a Godard-inspired experimental narrative that was lost in a fire in 1970

Scenes from Life: Golden Brain Mantra Trailer (1972)

01 January 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.