Raphael Montañez Ortíz Movies

Raphael Montañez Ortíz takes a scene from the film Phantom Lady and manipulates and distorts it using digital video software to create...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz distorts the famous line from Gregory Peck's performance in the 1956 adaptation of Moby Dick using digital...

Starting in 1985, Montañez Ortiz begins a series of what he calls “digital/laser/videos”; he makes a large number of these...

Performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art

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

Raphael Montañez Ortiz tells a story about an elderly Jewish couple that didn't watch television or listen to the radio. Instead they used to...

The same year that Bruce Conner completed his famed A Movie, Montañez Ortiz destroyed a 16mm print of a banal Western, Winchester '73, with a...

1991 / U-Matic / b&w / sound / 1S / 3' 00

A several-second passage depicting a woman's agitated face is repeated in a loop that decomposes, distorts and reassembles her expression and gesture...

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...

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

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...

An experimental video based on repetition and crazy rhythm.