Pip Chodorov

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Pip Chodorov, born April 13, 1965 in New York, has been making films and composing music since 1972. He studied cognitive science at the University of Rochester, NY and film semiotics at the University of Paris, France. Work in film distribution - previously Orion Classics, NYC; UGC, Paris; Light Cone, Paris; and, currently, Re:Voir Video, Paris, which he founded in 1994 (www.re-voir.com) and The Film Gallery, the first art gallery devoted exclusively to experimental film (www.re-voir.com/gallery). He is also co-founder of L'Abominable, a cooperative do-it-yourself film lab in Paris, and the moderator of the internet-based forum on experimental film, FrameWorks.

Most Popular Pip Chodorov Trailers

Total trailers found: 31

Butterfly Experiment Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

A figure with two wings on a church's roof. An opera is suggested, Madame Butterfly. A silent poem that combines effect and (angelical) truth.

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film Trailer (2011)

24 July 2011

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.

Sleepless Nights Stories Trailer (2011)

15 December 2011

Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs.

Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

US Rushes Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Three weeks of travel in the USA in June 1997: New York, Vermont, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, edited entirely in camera and projected with music from the 60s.

A Visit to Stan Brakhage Trailer (2003)

03 May 2003

A portrait of Brakhage shot in Victoria, British Columbia, just a few months before his death. Filmmaker Pip Chodorov illustrates Brakhage's reflections on his art with short passages from his hand-painted films.

Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier Trailer (2017)

01 January 2017

In this documentary, under the gaze of Pip Chodorov, Patrick Bokanowski evokes the genesis of his films and shows, by explaining them, a certain number of his inspirations (his meeting with the painter Henri Dimier , his first photographic tests.

Imaginary Friend Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

"This film is close to End Memory. Under the shock of a recent break-up I built a film with similar elements: a day of nostalgia in the countryside, the picking of blackberries, the meal, having fun with friends, at the edge of the pond, the sunset, the memory of a moment when everything was fine.

Jonas Keeps Shooting Around Trailer (2002)

01 August 2002

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas on the occasion of his 2002 retrospective in Paris (for his 80th birthday).

Portrait of Maurice Lemaître Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

A founding member of the Lettrist movement with Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître describes here the genesis of the movement, his friendship with Isou, their discoveries in filmmaking and their inventions of infinitesimal and supertemporal art.

Charlemagne 3 : Pastrami Recordings Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

Charlemagne Palestine, New York musician in Brussels, and Pip Chodorov, film-maker from New York in Paris, evoke their home town through images filmed in 16 mm, sounds taken over the years, songs, electronic music, as well as a new composition of Charlemagne Palestine: The Pastrami Recordings.

End Memory (Impromptu) Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

About ends and memory, the end of an era. I film to remember: the end of a summer, of a family, a last trip to Vermont before a separation, grandparents getting older.

The Photographer Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

A complement to the previous film (Numéro 4, 1989) : the fictional hero has the power to stop the projector, returning the cinema to its photographic origins, killing its motion.

Rooftop Flicker Trailer (2022)

14 October 2022

Super 8 flicker film shot and hand-developed in Seoul in spring 2022 with jazz soundtrack from a Jonas Mekas centennial tribute in Busan.

Wrong Moves Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

In "Faux Mouvements", forward and backward motions occur together, movement in different directions are combined.

Numéro 4 Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

The single frame is the only visible unit in film, yet it is nearly invisible. To see a single frame goes against the nature of cinema; even if that is its very nature.

Atterrissage Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

The double, the shadow of the subject, refers to the paradox that is at the heart of the human condition: the uniqueness of the viewer and looked, the voyeur seen.

Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire' Trailer (2017)

01 January 2017

Short documentary by Pip Chodorov showing Patrick Bokanowski's process in making "Un rêve solaire".

Making of Dyn Amo Trailer (2006)

11 August 2006

short documentary about the making of Dyn Amo

Anthology Film Archives Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

A short portrait of Anthology Film Archives, New York s museum of independent cinema founded by Jonas Mekas in 1970.

Charlemagne Trailer (1998)

22 June 1998

In June 22sd 1998, Charlemagne Palestine was invited to perform at Bretigny sur Orge for the Captain Pip’s evenings.

Paris at the Turn of the 21st Century Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

A joyful and light-hearted look at alienation. What we see: ugly modern buildings, too many tourists, uniformity - everywhere the same cafés, the same supermarket bags, beggars and homeless, Senegalese merchants selling small Eiffel Towers, police and people fleeing from them, aggressive restaurateurs, markets, crowded subways, traffic jams and exhaust fumes, prostitutes, street fights, clowns.

Stranger Trailer (2018)

01 January 2018

Romanian fairy tales usually start with the sentence: “Once upon a time something happened, if it hadn’t happened it couldn’t be told.

Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007 Trailer (2007)

09 January 2007

The film documents an encounter at 202 Blvd Saint-Germain, in a cafe underneath Apollinaire's last place of residence.

Mariage d’Armando Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

In December, Armando and Rim invite me to their wedding. I miss the ceremony but film the reception. Maurice Lemaître is the witness.

Super Caddy Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

A short film by Pip Chodorov

The Spells of Kenneth Anger Trailer (2003)

14 October 2003

- "The Spells of Kenneth Anger" was shot in Hollywood in July, 2003. Anger gives an overview of his life and we see clips of his many films.

Jacques Perconte - Decompositions Trailer (2019)

21 January 2019

Pip Chodorov's profile of Jacques Perconte

Charlemagne 2: Piltzer Trailer (2002)

16 October 2002

Pip Chodorov's "Charlemagne 2: Piltzer" is a tour de force of hand-processed film which documents a Palestine piano concert.

Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97 Trailer (1998)

08 October 1998

Jonas Mekas came to Paris in October 1997 for the video release of his film Walden. I filmed the event and its twists and turns at the Cinémathèque, the Fnac, the École des Beaux-Arts, and in a few bars and restaurants.

Cinexpérimentaux #4: Pip Chodorov Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

Portrait, alternating interviews and extracted from Pip Chodorov's films who evokes its conception of the experimental movies, the links of some of his films with photography.