Roberta Friedman

Roberta Friedman, a filmmaker and video artist, has a decades-long career of achievements, including projects from the commercial—including George Lucas’s Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back,[1] specializing in sparks, matte work, and swords—to the experimental, such as her film work preserved in the Academy Film Archive[2] and the video The Erl King, created in collaboration with Grahame Weinbren, which was the first interactive art piece acquired by the Guggenheim Museum for its permanent collection.[3]

Director Roberta Friedman setting up the shot for one of her recent projects.

Work

As an independent filmmaker, Friedman was in an early influential group of LA-based experimental video artists whose work is currently restored and in the collection of both the Film Academy Archive and the Australian National Film Library.[4] As she developed her art work, Friedman was a much sought-out filmmaker and worked on award-winning films, including The Empire Strikes Back, Days of Heaven, and Ragtime (film).[5]

Spanning a large amount of film and video productions as well as collaborations with new music artists and composers, Friedman's work has been presented extensively in the United States and Europe at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, MOMA, the Pompidou Centre, and other venues.

A pioneer in the area of interactive media, Friedman uses film, video and digital hybrids in presenting multi filmworks, such as Straight From Bertha and the Erl King at the Whitney Biennial, the Guggenheim Museum and the Millennium Film Workshop, among others.[6] She is currently working on a video and film project is an homage to John Cage's 49 Waltz's. With longtime collaborator Daniel Loewenthal, Friedman and Lowenthal are using Cage's concept by creating the Cosmopolis Project. A series of video installations with striking visual and sound portraits taken from the streets of Cairo, Beijing, Graz, Detroit, and New York City reflect urban cultures in transition.[7]

Selected filmography

  • 49 Waltzes for the Fashion City: Milan (2017)
  • Power To Heal (2017) - producer
  • Bertha's Great-Grandchildren (2015) - director
  • Cosmopolis: 49 Waltzes for the World (2013) - director & producer
  • Bertha's Grandchildren (2011) - director
  • Hempsters Plant the Seed (2010)
  • A Kiss for Jed Wood (2009)
  • Kandinsky: A Close Look (2009-2012) - producer
  • Here! Family (2005) - producer
  • Wolves of Wall Street (2002) - co-producer
  • I.D. It's Dance (1986) - executive producer
  • Terms of Analysis (1982)
  • Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - visual effects
  • Cheap Imitations Part I: Melies - India Rubber Head (1980)
  • Cheap Imitations Part II: Madwomen (1980)
  • Cheap Imitations Part III: Point Point (1980)
  • Murray and Max Talk About Money (1979)
  • Vicarious Thrills (1979)
  • Future Perfect (1978)
  • Between the Lines (1977)
  • Crotchets and Contrivances (1977)
  • Bertha's Children (1976) - director
  • For Norma and Her Voices (1976)
  • Cross Sections (1975)
  • Siblings (1975)
  • The Making of Americans (1974)
  • Amusement Park Composition & Decay (1973)

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Grants, Awards and Festivals

Friedman has received grants and awards from NYSCA, NEA, BFI, the Australian Commission and has shown her films at many festivals, including the Athens International Festival, Sinking Creek Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, FILMEX, Millennium Film Workshop, Berlin Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival.[10]

Select List of Awards and Grants[11]

  • AMPAS grant ($750000) for below the line workshops 2017-18
  • AMPAS grant (10.000) for below the line workshops 2014-15
  • Internship Grants from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences from 2010 to 2013 to give stipends to University students to do internships on narrative & documentary films.
  • Guest Lecture Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, 2012
  • New Jersey Arts Council, 2009 for guest lecture series
  • Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2007)
  • NYSCA Grant
  • NEH Grant (2) (2005) (2004)
  • NEA Grant (2) (1985) (2002)
  • USIA sponsored artist – to Australia (1992)
  • Copland Foundation Grant (2000)
  • Thomas Buckner Foundation Grant (2000)
  • Valley Filmworks Grant
  • BFI Filmmaking Grant

References

  1. ↑ "Roberta Friedman". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  2. ↑ lafilmforum (2009-05-21). "May 29 – Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Things Are Always Going Wrong". The city’s longest-running organization dedicated to weekly screenings of experimental film, documentaries, animation and video art. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  3. ↑ "Guggenheim Museum - Past Exhibitions - Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice". pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  4. ↑ "Welcome to Alternative Projections » Alternate Projections". alternativeprojections.com (in $ContentLocale). Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  5. ↑ "Roberta Friedman". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  6. ↑ "The Agenda: This Week in Los Angeles - Previews - Art in America". www.artinamericamagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  7. ↑ "Cosmopolis: 49 Waltzes for the World - New Music World". New Music World. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  8. ↑ "Home". Roberta Friedman. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  9. ↑ "Roberta Friedman". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  10. ↑ "Welcome to Alternative Projections » Alternate Projections". alternativeprojections.com (in $ContentLocale). Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  11. ↑ "Welcome to Alternative Projections » Alternate Projections". alternativeprojections.com. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
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