Kısa Film İnsanları
by theblockade | created - 27 Feb 2018 | updated - 16 Apr 2018 | Public
1. Man Ray
Director | Home Movies
American painter and artist in various media who participated in a few films. He helped found the Dada movement and was the prime American participant in the Surrealist movement. An American expatriate to Paris in the 1920s, he was a member of the so-called "Lost Generation" of creative minds ...
2. Maya Deren
Director | Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren came to the USA in 1922 as Eleanora Derenkowsky. Together with her father Solomon Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist, and her mother Maria Fidler, an artist, she fled the pogroms organized by the Bolsheviks against the Jews. She studied journalism and political science at the Syracuse ...
3. Stan Brakhage
Director | The Loom
Stan Brakhage was born on January 14, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Loom (1986), The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000) and Visions in Meditation (1990). He was married to Marilyn Jull and Jane Wodening. He died on March 9, 2003 in ...
4. Michael Snow
Director | Wavelength
Central figure of the American avant-garde. An artist who made an isolated animated short, A to Z (1956), Snow concentrated on his painting career until moving to New York in 1963. After attending avant-garde film screenings organized by critic-filmmaker Jonas Mekas and turning out a second film, ...
5. Joyce Wieland
Director | The Far Shore
Joyce Wieland was born on June 30, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was a director and editor, known for The Far Shore (1976), Sailboat (1967) and 1933 (1967). She was married to Michael Snow. She died on June 27, 1998 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
6. Jean Cocteau
Writer | La Belle et la Bête
Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor. He began writing at 10 and was a published poet by age 16. He collaborated with the "Russian Ballet" company of Sergei...
7. Dudley Murphy
Director | Stocks and Blondes
Dudley Murphy was born on July 10, 1897 in Winchester, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Stocks and Blondes (1928), High Speed Lee (1923) and ...One Third of a Nation... (1939). He was married to Katharine Hawley and Virginia. He died on February 22, 1968 in Mexico City, ...
8. Alexander Hammid
Director | Power Among Men
Alexander Hammid was born on December 17, 1907 in Linz, Austria-Hungary [now Upper Austria, Austria]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Power Among Men (1959), Crisis (1939) and The Forgotten Village (1941). He was married to Hella Heyman and Maya Deren. He died on July 26, 2004 in ...
9. Bill Morrison
Director | Dawson City: Frozen Time
Bill Morrison was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a director and editor, known for Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), The Great Flood (2013), The Miners' Hymns (2011), Spark of Being (2010), Light Is Calling (2004) and Decasia (2002). Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) won a Critics' Choice Award ...
10. Kenneth Anger
Director | Fireworks
Kenneth Anger grew up in Hollywood and started out as a child actor, but his interest in filmmaking was evident at an early age: he made his first film, Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) , at age 14.
Anger developed into one of the pioneers of the American underground film movement. His ...
11. Ritwik Ghatak
Director | Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo
Ritwik Ghatak was born on November 4, 1925 in Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Dhaka, Bangladesh]. He was a director and writer, known for Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo (1974), Musafir (1957) and The Cloud-Capped Star (1960). He was married to Surama Ghatak. He died on February 6, 1976 in ...
12. Béla Balázs
Writer | Die 3 Groschen-Oper
Béla Balázs was born on August 4, 1884 in Szeged, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Threepenny Opera (1931), Sonntag des Lebens (1931) and Karl Brunner (1936). He was married to Anna Hamvassy and Edit Olga Hajós. He died on May 17, 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
13. Humphrey Jennings
Director | Fires Were Started
Humphrey Jennings, born in 1907, was a writer, set designer, painter, editor and, perhaps most famously, a director of ground-breaking documentary films for the renowned GPO film unit: Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943) and A Diary for Timothy (1945), films that changed the face of...
14. Edgar Anstey
Producer | Wild Wings
Documentary producer Edgar Anstey was one of the pioneers of the British documentary movement. His mentor was famed documentarian John Grierson at the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, for which he made Uncharted Waters (1933) and Granton Trawler (1934), among others. Anstey later worked as a film ...
15. Alberto Cavalcanti
Director | O Canto do Mar
Born in Brazil in 1897, Alberto Cavalcanti began his film career in France in 1920, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary Nothing But Time (1926) ("Nothing but Time"), a portrait of the lives of Parisian workers in a single day. He moved to England in...
16. Fred Gamage
Cinematographer | Life in Her Hands
Fred Gamage was born on January 1, 1916 in Camberwell, London, England, UK. Fred was a cinematographer and director, known for Life in Her Hands (1951), The Great Hold-Up (1955) and Chemistry for the Nuclear Age (1962). Fred died in 2013.
17. Pare Lorentz
Writer | The River
Pare Lorentz was born on December 11, 1905 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The River (1938), The Fight for Life (1940) and Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut (2007). He died on March 4, 1992 in Armonk, New York, USA.
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