Raphael Montañez Ortíz Movies

One of director Ortiz’s final computer-laser-videos, marking a significant point in his career as an interdisciplinary artist and pioneer of...

Similar to the work of Martin Arnold, this outré and charged video-work employs footage from a Stroheim vehicle with film of a woman sexually...

Metaphor on the massacre with the help of diverted images and a very varied soundtrack. The soundtrack was added in 1962.

Randomly spliced pieces of a newsreel featuring notable news from 1946.

A selection of works from the late 1950's - late 1980's which begins with one of a number of piano destruction concerts performed at the DESTRUCTION...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz distorts scenes from assorted World War II-era newsreels using digital editing technology to create a...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz takes a scene from the film Winchester '73 and creates a redux of his 1958 works 'Cowboy' and 'Indian Film'...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz visually manipulates a scene of Spencer Tracy in his role from the classic film San Francisco to create a...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz takes a scene of the birth of Jesus taken from the television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth and distorts and...

An 80-sec excerpt of the edge-to-edge scan of Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s 1957 film "Golf"s 16mm celluloid print with punched holes across...

Performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art

With the aid of the Computer Department at Rutgers University, Montañez Ortiz devised a software interface that allowed him to digitize a...

An experimental video based on repetition and crazy rhythm.