Vito A. Rowlands Trailers
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Vito A. Rowlands (né Adriaensens, Antwerp, 1986) is a Belgian filmmaker and scholar. His feature script "Elvis, We Like Your Music" was a finalist at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Development Track and his award-winning shorts have played around the world at venues such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Vienna Shorts, Aesthetica, the Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Raindance, the Brooklyn Film Festival, HollyShorts, Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova, and Nitehawk Shorts.
Vito has taught in Amsterdam, Brussels, and Copenhagen, as well as at Columbia University. He is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a 16mm film instructor at Mono No Aware in Brooklyn. He is a co-author of "Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema" and the author of "Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: The Art of Early European Cinema."
His first feature is the Metamorphoses-inspired 35mm anthology film "Ovid, New York" (2024). He is currently in pre-production on his second feature: a silent, nineteenth-century set spiritualist thriller.
Most Popular Vito A. Rowlands Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
31 October 2024
A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films limited edition Blu-ray on 11/11/2024.
02 March 2022
If the eyes are the window to the soul, "Immaculate Generations no. 1" presents its viewer with a singular look into thousands of souls.
15 October 2021
A hipster vampire in Brooklyn uses a meditation app to keep from biting people.
28 October 2020
New York, 1927. An aspiring model goes to have her picture taken, but a camera can have a mind of its own.
09 June 2024
Seven tales of transformation poetically reimagine Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and paint a picture of violence and catharsis, anchored in mythical landscapes.
19 April 2020
In Vito A. Rowlands' "Entre les Images", orphaned 35mm frames from lost silent films are threaded together and interlaced with narration relating a tale of youth, love, war and grief, the conflagration of a world at war poetically mirrored in the burning of nitrate film.
16 April 2021
"Flames that Drift" (Laai ende Drift) is an experimental poetry film on super 8mm film that enters into direct intertextual dialogue with Antwerp poet Paul van Ostaijen's 1921 collection "Occupied City," and more specifically his "Music Hall" poems, and set during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in New York.
26 January 2026
Autumn adventurers unite! "Leaf Peeper" takes you on a frantic frolic of Fall foliage until your eyes pop out.
15 August 2019
A man struggles with his faith and is perennially caught between ascension and fall. "Ascending Double Helix" explores the boundaries between the mythologized and the visceral body, blending sculpture with the sublime, and taking as its cue the motif of ascension and the format of the passion play.
18 January 2025
A cryptopolitical forensic investigation of the JFK assassination through acoustic ballistics and signs embedded into 1963 5-cent American flag stamps.
18 January 2020
Clouds migrate dramatically across the cornered façade of an office building as the sun goes down. Dispersed light imbues each of the 137 visible windows with new life between each frame and paints golden streaks that unfold like a symphony against the space's flickering fluorescent lights.
18 January 2020
Three interior perspectives on magic hour in isolation that emerge like muted post horns, pieces of dusk that radiate both glorious impermanence and chaotic entropy.
18 January 2020
A slow iris pull on a reflected interior bulb at twilight triggers mydriasis and miosis. As the interior moon waxes, pupils will wane.