Movies: Pip Chodorov

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Mr. M...

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community....

In this documentary, under the gaze of Pip Chodorov, Patrick Bokanowski evokes the genesis of his films and shows, by explaining them, a certain number of his inspirations (his meeting with the painter Henri Dimier , his first photographic tests...),...

Three weeks of travel in the USA in June 1997: New York, Vermont, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, edited entirely in camera and projected with music from the 60s....

Portrait, alternating interviews and extracted from Pip Chodorov's films who evokes its conception of the experimental movies, the links of some of his films with photography. Their character, sometimes improvised, sometimes composed. He’s and editor...

The film documents an encounter at 202 Blvd Saint-Germain, in a cafe underneath Apollinaire's last place of residence. Jean-Jacques Lebel gives Jonas Mekas (who remains off screen), three objects associated with Apollinare: an autographed book, a Fut...

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A figure with two wings on a church's roof. An opera is suggested, Madame Butterfly. A silent poem that combines effect and (angelical) truth......

The single frame is the only visible unit in film, yet it is nearly invisible. To see a single frame goes against the nature of cinema; even if that is its very nature. If every frame holds the same image, there will be no movement; if they are compl...

A complement to the previous film (Numéro 4, 1989) : the fictional hero has the power to stop the projector, returning the cinema to its photographic origins, killing its motion. Having the unfortunate idea of taking his self-portrait, he finds himse...

A founding member of the Lettrist movement with Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître describes here the genesis of the movement, his friendship with Isou, their discoveries in filmmaking and their inventions of infinitesimal and supertemporal art. Shot in ...

Short documentary by Pip Chodorov showing Patrick Bokanowski's process in making "Un rêve solaire"....

Pip Chodorov's profile of Jacques Perconte...

About ends and memory, the end of an era. I film to remember: the end of a summer, of a family, a last trip to Vermont before a separation, grandparents getting older.... I film impromptu, dissolving and fading in the camera. At night I hand-develop ...

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas on the occasion of his 2002 retrospective in Paris (for his 80th birthday). Through film clips and interviews, Mekas recounts his arrival in America, his early life in New York and his first filmmaking experiences. An ...

short documentary about the making of Dyn Amo...

A joyful and light-hearted look at alienation. What we see: ugly modern buildings, too many tourists, uniformity - everywhere the same cafés, the same supermarket bags, beggars and homeless, Senegalese merchants selling small Eiffel Towers, police an...

Romanian fairy tales usually start with the sentence: “Once upon a time something happened, if it hadn’t happened it couldn’t be told.” In this fairy tale, a stranger visits the remote mountain village of Slon....

The double, the shadow of the subject, refers to the paradox that is at the heart of the human condition: the uniqueness of the viewer and looked, the voyeur seen. Filmed back from New York in Paris in the winter of 1998, this film brings us back to...

Super 8 flicker film shot and hand-developed in Seoul in spring 2022 with jazz soundtrack from a Jonas Mekas centennial tribute in Busan....