Movies: Michel Auder

One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated 'diary films.' Like the contemporaneous films by O'Leary's more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trip...

Michel reads a book about love, with pictures of naked ladies flashing by and a song by Laurie Anderson playing in the background....

HD video by Michel Auder....

Video interviews of passerby at the World Trade Center by artist Marcia Resnick. Recorded 1976, edited 2007....

In 1970 Valerie Solanas was released from a mental institution, two 
years after shooting Andy Warhol. Still unstable, she moved into the 
Chelsea Hotel where she penned a death threat to Michel Auder and his
wife Viva. Using a soundtrack by Wagner, ...

From its fiery outset, Brooding Angles is decidedly gothic and the mood anxious. It is a dark rumination on the specter of authority, resistance and paranoia marking the close of Reagan's second term in office. Born in 1945, Auder came of age during ...

Video recorded in 1986, edited 1993. ”You know you're addicted to heroin when you begin proclaiming every bag to be your last.” Auder says this from experience. Throughout the early and mid 1980s he was an addict. In this candid piece of disclosure h...

Hi8 video by Michel Auder, recorded 1990, edited 2009....

Voyage's structure is simple. Coastal landscape footage and spectacular sunsets are combined with phone conversations recorded from a scanner that picks up cordless phone frequencies....

Auder's reminiscences from 1986 - 87....

Phone video by Michel Auder....

16mm film transferred to SD video, recorded 1970, edited 2009. An excerpt from Michel Auder's film Cleopatra (1970)....

The Course of Empire is inspired by the eponymous series of paintings created by Thomas Cole from 1833 to 1836. A 'text film,' constructed from iPhone images of writings by James Baldwin, Donna J. Haraway, and Arthur Rimbaud, it also features excerpt...

Video by Michel Auder....

Auder observes his friend Alice Neel as she paints and talks her way through her portrait of Margaret Evans Pregnant...

A portrait of Rome that would have made Plutarch proud, Roman Variations was made during a residency at a studio provided by the gallerist Barbara Gladstone....

For the past 50 years, Michel Auder has been recording his personal life, creating films and videos that document his own experience and social milieu. His new work, Fictional Art Film, is a composite portrait of Auder’s New York art world during the...

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Video recorded in NYC by Michel Auder in 1983, edited in 2009....

Through the use of original and appropriated video footage, Auder translates a religious sermon into an expression of love for this strikingly beautiful woman. This lovers tale opens with a photograph of Denise that is alternately caressed and crushe...