Week 2: Lecture - Adrian Goycoolea

Adrian Goycoolea is an experimental filmmaker. He lived and worked in New York for 10 years. His work includes creating installations and narrative filmmaking.

Anthology Film Archives

• Museum and theatre
• Founded by filmmaker, Joans Mekas 
• American avant-garde cinema
• wrote about experimental films
• Goycoolea volunteered at Anthology Film Archives whilst studying at School of Visual Arts

Goycoolea's influences:

• Alex Mendizabel
• Mau
• Stom Sogo
• Lee Elikson
• Bruce McClure
• Filmmakers super 8 work

Funk Taxi Visuals:

• Film collective
• Installations at parties/raves
• Art galleries and festivals

Image-crash-lifesize

• 1998, New York City
• TV monitors in taxi-cab
• Clips of other work
• Smashing car sound fx

Researching thesis film:

• Watched avant garde films at Anthology Film Archive
• Read books about vision, blindness and memory
• Theory connecting it to art
• Paintings
• Months of experimentation on one technique
• Sourced home movie footage to rephotograph
• Influences: Gerhard Richter; Robert Rouschenberg; Sigmar Polke, Andy Warhol; Michael snow; Stan Brakehe, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Bailie

Memories of a Blind Father

• Someone who'd lost their sight
• Forgotten imagery
• Visual memories being lost

¡Viva Chile Mierda!

• Family experiences of torture in Chile
• Radio recordings
• Animated illustrations
• Detailed explanations of their memories
• Personal stories with wider social context
• Used illustrations as archival footage to seem more personal
• Personal style - Chilean people desensitised to the war
• Could be useful for my own work as it explores the family's experiences during the war