Anita Thacher

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Anita Thacher was a New York-based artist known for her work in a variety of mediums–film, video, public art, multimedia, light, architectural and sculptural installation, as well as painting, photography and prints. Her art explores issues of perception both spatial and personal. Memory, childhood and domestic themes are fundamental elements in the work. She was the recipient of numerous grants and awards among them are The National Endowment for the Arts (four grants), The New York State Council on the Arts (five grants), The Ford Foundation, The American Film Institute, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The New York Women in Film and Television Preservation Fund. Public collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art, Arsenal, Internationales Forum des Jungen Films among others. Her films are distributed by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Arsenal, Berlin and Light Cone, Paris among others. Her prints are available through The Metropolitan Museum of Art store and VanDeb Editions. Anita Thacher is represented by Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. National and international exhibitions include The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The New York Film Festival, P.S.1, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jeu de Paume, Paris and The Whitney Museum of American Art among others. Ms. Thacher was a MacDowell Colony Fellow, former member of its Board and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow.

Most Popular Anita Thacher Trailers

Total trailers found: 11

Crush Proof Trailer (1972)

04 June 1972

A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United States.

Elizabeth Bishop: One Art Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

Illustrates the writer's wandering spirit, from a childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, and the central themes of her work: geography, landscape, and the quest for consciousness and identity through travel.

Loose Corner Trailer (1986)

12 February 1986

Mysterious cinematographic events unfold in a very neat little space, like a theatre. A ball gets bigger and bigger and then suddenly disappears: there’s a dog a good head or two taller than a child; a young woman miniscule one second is huge the next… We don’t get it, but just enjoy taking part in a phantasmagorical experience like an audience in the early days of cinema, with filmmakers that have made an illusion out of this art.

Lost / In Memoriam Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

A tribute to, and evocation of women no longer alive. The rituals of their daily lives are honored and memorialized through transformed images of flowers, woods, water and more.

Cut Trailer (2013)

01 January 2013

CUT appropriates 6 classic black and white Hollywood film clips from the 30's and 40s. The images and the sound are reconfigured through graphic and sequential interventions.

Chase Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

Chase has appropriated the masterful car chase scene from Bullitt . The manipulation of the scene’s images and sounds allows the viewer to discover the classic film scene anew.

Manhattan Doorway Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

Short film by Anita Thacher

Permanent Wave Trailer (1978)

21 January 1978

“Anita Thacher's film was ignored by critics of avant-garde cinema because its lively deconstruction of pornography did not fit into any of the dominant critical categories of the time.

Sea Travels Trailer (1978)

05 October 1978

"A surrealistic film made with optical printed techniques about a young girl who acts as a guide on a journey aimed at recapturing childhood through the distortion of memory.

To the Top Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Homage to Magritte Trailer (1975)

28 September 1975

This film opens with the sense of juxtaposition and absurdity that are the basis of Magritte's paintings, and succeeds in contributing to the surrealist tradition through subtle and powerful manipulations of the filmed image.