Mark LaPore Trailers
The Sleepers Trailer
Mark LaPore was an experimental ethnographic filmmaker who made several films in the Sudan, India and Sri Lanka, as well as various parts of the U.S. over a period of nearly thirty years. A dedicated iconoclast and personal artist, LaPore strove to document and portray the cultures with which he connected in ways that were true to his experiences as a traveler as well as being honest reflections of people and scenes that he was witnessing. LaPore worked against conventions of ethnographic narrative, using cinema at its most fundamental level as an objective tool that could also be harnessed for personal response and expression. He was also an influential teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art, and many of his students have gone on to become significant filmmakers in their own right. LaPore's tragic and premature death on September 11, 2005, robbed American independent cinema of one of its most original and dedicated talents. - Steve Anker
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06 October 1973
First film by Mark LaPore.
18 March 1997
A filmic Pandora's Box full of my version of "trouble" (death, loss, cultural imperialism) as well as the trouble with representation as incomplete understanding.
22 January 2000
“The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets.
07 July 2005
Portrait by Mark LaPore.
05 April 1983
Shot also on Super 8 in Sudan, LaPore’s use of a fixed camera and unedited camera rolls, generates a certain “modesty of technique which allows for a deeper participation in the enframed action.
27 July 1983
Medina, shot on Super 8, belongs to a loose trilogy of films set in Sudan. “The shifting camera movements in Medina pursue a shallow tactile space of the hand rather than a deep perspective of the eye, as their lateral motions caress surface patterns and textures.
01 January 1988
A confrontational rant addressed to the judges of the films entered in a Super 8 competition at No Exit.
09 September 1989
Sudan Rolls originally were filmed as part of an ethnographic project. Only later did he realize that the complexity inherent in these simple shots was an area he wished to purposefully explore.
12 October 2002
Shared intimacy mingles with unabashed voyeurism in a distilled, complex rumination on the pleasures and problems of gazing.
15 July 2005
A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city at once medieval and modern.
01 January 2005
In 2005, Phil Solomon collaborated with his best friend, the highly respected filmmaker Mark LaPore, on a short digital video entitled Crossroad, which they made as a get-well offering for a mutual friend [David Gatten].
20 October 1985
“Memory, as well as the residue of information in text and film from Sudan, led me to make The Sleepers in order to resolve the impression that the third world is present in the first world as an idea and a condition.
01 January 1996
Shot while LaPore was on a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship to Sri Lanka in 1993-1994. “I have made a film about travelling and living in a distant place which looks at aspects of daily life and where the war shadows the quotidian with a dark and rumbling step.
