Country: USA
Year: 2005
Duration: 35\'
“LaPore’s work of radical ethnography has included films shot in rural Sudan, Sri Lanka, India, New York and Idaho. LaPore’s last film the The Glass System created an in between world composed of a now disappearing Manhattan and an urban India with unique attributes that also recall a New York of half a century ago. The filmmaker’s newest piece is shot entirely in Calcutta, India. Kolkata displays a unique sense of fixed frame portraiture that is as much informed by Warhol as it is the Lumière brothers while also carrying us on tracking shots through the printing district of the city.” (M. McElhatten)
Biography
film director
Mark LaPore
Mark LaPore (New York,
USA, 1952-2005) was a
professor of filmmaking at Massachusetts College of Art. Since 1973 he
has made
numerous short films, which have been shown at film festivals and in
New York,
at the Whitney Museum and at the Museum of Modern Art.